Speaking for myself, architecture that doesn't look like glass shoeboxes is anything but kitschy. Although I'll give you the cargo-cult point. I just saw some

Speaking for myself, architecture that doesn't look like glass shoeboxes is anything but kitschy. Although I'll give you the cargo-cult point. I just saw some new construction going up in Budapest along the river that is based heavily on the 19th-century architecture of much of the rest of the city. It still has a couple of airy glass walls, but some of the building was good solid brick with the staggered stone window facing that's so typical of most of Pest. I thought it was fantastic. (My wife, the Hungarian, was unimpressed; indeed, I'm not even sure she understand what point I was trying to make about it. Ah well.)