Well, you can't please everybody and if you're Beijing, you have writer Jerry Guo concerned. In his interesting opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor, "Second Thoughts on Beijing's New Olympic-Inspired Architecture," he worries out loud that this huge push to build fancy new show-off architecture is stripping the city of all that makes it unique. Everything is going modern, with very little focus on retaining its historic past. It's a nice essay and we certainly understand Guo's argument, but at the same time, we'd like to invite him to tour nearly every single city on the planet right now and see why Beijing is anything special in its loss of tradition. Here in the US, all but the few largest of the largest cities have been completely gutted and most neighborhoods look identical to one another. Granted, the US is a few years younger than China, but still, it's happening everywhere and, at this point, it seems like a good idea to thank the heavens that your city is at least investing in exciting new architecture in its city centers, instead of the depressing alternative of erasing then leaving those vacant patches alone.