... beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder... otherwise the folks fixing up the David Whitney Building wouldn't have to spending money on restoring the exterior to the classic Daniel Burnham look before it got its' "lobotomy" in the 1950s. Ditto for a dozen other buildings downtown.

Back in the 1950s business folks used to hack up building exteriors, and either drape over or rip out ornate movie palace interiors... and they used to boast "look at all the trouble we went thru so that you won't have to look at all that old stuff anymore"....

Time change, and so do tastes... the old Fisher Theatre was disemboweled by the Nederlander organization in 1960-61 to remove the exotic Mayan plasterwork and shrink down the theatre. Today the Theatre Historical Society said of the old Fisher "it was an impossibly wonderful work".... now gone.

So yes... beauty is in the eye of the beholder....