I know that there are 27 years separating these two works and the comparison may be unfair, but is this:

truly the natural progression from this?

I have enormous respect for Libeskind and his early work, however it is a crying shame to see him on US TV with his Stars and Stripes pin and when his diagrams become the ‘house style’ and get plastered across the facade of an apartment building purely for branding purposes, I get just a little cynical.