Thanks to everyone who has posted pics.
Now that it's done, I think Stick made a good point - there is a gravity to this building which makes it easier for the eye to analyze and the brain to accept. It has a very 'science building on an academic quad' feel to it, but in a positive way that could potentially help knit together an area crisscrossed by major elevated thoroughfares.
I piled on in the beginning with many others, but I'm now glad it's not a simple glass box.