So! It turns out that your criticism is based merely on your personal, and admittedly low-brow, "taste". My view, on the other hand, is based on the inherent greatness of the buildings I cited. Game, set, match.

And what would you know about my taste? What i will say is that it is based on actual principles of design (as well as years of study and practice) and not whatever i happened to read in a Barnes and Noble bargain shelf coffee table book titled "greatest buildings of North America"