Okay I’ll bite: “Which hospital would I rather convalesce in?”, the one with the best doctors. I find the old fashioned architecture he uses beautiful but even

Okay I’ll bite: “Which hospital would I rather convalesce in?”, the one with the best doctors. I find the old fashioned architecture he uses beautiful but even the cherry picked examples of bad architecture some of them I still like; let us look around London today, the Southbank and the Barbican are brutalist masterpieces, the Shard is incredible, especially when the clouds touch the top, together with the rebuilding of Kings Cross or even Terminal 5 modern architecture is everywhere and when it’s good I absolutely love it. I find it really hard to believe people dislike modern architecture; the problem with building something with fine adornments today is they end up looking extremely cheap and fake, we are capable of building clean crisp forms in ways not possible before and providing spaces that function much better at their purposes today than we were in the past. The article is sentimental about the old buildings and we can be inspired by them, but modern architecture like Taipei 101 or the Burj Khalifa just blows me away as spectacles of what science and engineering have accomplished. Creating something that looks like the Taj Mahal today would just look hokey and seem extremely dysfunctional for its intended use. Each to their own but I’m a big fan.