"Vinoly has likened the Glass Hall to nineteenth-century public spaces; indeed like arcades: both the Milan Galleria and the Crystal Palace are recalled in this immense, awesome space with its monumental staircases and shimmering bridges and ramps, that are almost Piranesian in scale.

"The Plaza itself recalls the scale of other European models like the Piazza Navona in Rome, and the whole ensemble has been compared to the symbolic presence of the Sydney Opera House, or to the grandeur of the Parisian Eiffel Tower."

— Ivor Richards, "Space Odyssey", The Architectural Review, 1197, November 1996.