According to the master plan by Kohn Pederson Fox, the towers are meant to revolve around the public space. But without any streets, the relationship between the structures, designed by different architects, appears almost arbitrary. Ideally, the elliptical-shaped plaza should have forced these individual icons to work as a team, but the space simply sputters out. Everything beyond the Vessel is wasted space. There is no cafe, no demarcated seating areas. Because the public space fails to unify the disparate elements, Hudson Yards ends up feeling like a larger version of the mall: a collection of high-end architectural brands crammed together in no particular order.