Quote Originally Posted by SannaR View Post
The Machi aspect was more so due to them having a more organic, biological look that had a lot of black n purple. Where most Garlean stuff has none of those hallmarks. Garlean has mostly well the Ivory Standard as it's building colors that have a huge nod of brutalist architecture style with small hints of a very sentimental Amaurotine's touches.
While I admit this is largley helped out by hindsight--we now know exactly what the towers are, rather than just seeing them--I think their design makes sense as sort of a nightmarish parody of Garlean technology and buildings. There's the shared bio-organic nature, but especially from the outside, you can see them as sort of a twisted mockery of a Garlean alarm tower, built out of flesh and bone instead of metal and mortar. At the time that angle wasn't completely clear, but I do remember specifically running the Weeping City to get some comparative looks at their building style, and seeing that they had fundamentally different construction even if they shared some traits. Again, hindsight gives me the perspective to say that it feels like Mhach was built like that while the towers look like they grew like that.