It would be cheaper to fully demolish and rebuild with a typical bland curtain wall box. So where's the economic case? There doesn't appear to be one. If it's a

It would be cheaper to fully demolish and rebuild with a typical bland curtain wall box. So where's the economic case? There doesn't appear to be one. If it's a means of evading some regulation I'd have expected a regulatory response to such piss taking since this trend started in the 90s. Most people who aren't architects seem to dislike modern buildings and facadism seems a way of evading rather than addressing the argument.