I’m not feeling it with this one.
I get your point: particularly with the odd cantilevers - regarding the the Flatiron House project I posted.
However, I think Alemel had a good take on this architectural design - “this one takes a bit to love”. You just may be one of the ‘common folk’ Alemel mentioned in his/her comments posted below.. 
I walked past last weekend when I was in the neighborhood. It really is lovely.
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Love that RAMSAS has finally given us a masonry building… STUNNING!
There have been a number of brick Sterns. They seem to end up looking better than the concrete or even limestone facade ones.
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The RAMSA buildings do look better when done in brick; as opposed to the limestone blocks. There classical designs win the beauty contest every time. 
Those in-the-know do know the brick facades are composed of prefabricated brick ‘panel’ sections - which are attached to the facade in a patchwork assembly. I only which they would make the simple added effort to color the panel-joint sections to match the color of the bricks: those light colored joint lines would litterly disappear from sight.
Photo taken from the YIMBY feature article posted above. Photo by Michael Young
Those visible vertical line seams would be an easy fix. 
I now how 14 posts on this topic. Click on my infoshare tag above to see my other photos/links/comments. The post showing the historic map of the underground streams and water beds is my favorite.
Could be that the seams darken with time.
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Yes, that does seem likely. The soot in the air, or simply fading with time - those 'bright" vertical joint lines will fade from site.
It is not IMHO something that should be left to be corrected by the natural elements of time, weather, and atmospheric pollutants. 
It reeks of shoddy workmanship. The Vitruvian Triad calls for BEAUTY, Solidity and Utility. This one is a BEAUTY: but the Solidity/Construction Quality may be lacking.
It could be that they planned the eventual color change so it won’t be too dark in the future.
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That much I do agree with; highly likely.
My quibble raises another question when it comes the the Vitruvian feature of FIRMNESS/ SOLIDITY in Architecture. It seems to me (no pun intended) that gap between the brick panels is too big, and perhaps poorly installed; and therefore needed all that mortar to fill the space. It calls into question the “construction quality/solidity/firmness” of the finished product.
I am glad that is only a minor aesthetic flaw - and the overall stone facade is beautiful. Here is a good blog post speculating that stone facades will be far more prevalent in the future because it is actually going to be a far more ‘efficient’ building material than Steel or Concrete. I hope this prediction is correct: stone facades, be it brick, or limestone block - are gorgeous.
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They have to plan for heat expansion.