You can't really make it out from the pictures, but the details of the brickwork on the podium that is visible beneath the scaffolding look really good so far. More depth and texture than pretty much any modern development downtown that I can think of (still not as much as most of the old buildings in Old Town but much more than anything recent). I think the podium will look gorgeous when finished.
True, the brick looks great so far, the rest of the cladding is more than half-way up the building and it looks so much better than its neighbours. The cladding looks much less institutional and bland.