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I believe you're wrong. The principal architects for Albany were the usually-brilliant H.H. Richardson and Leopold Eidlitz, who created a cranky mishmash between them of virtuoso details and spaces shoved into a ghastly pile as a whole. The Albany building is much more disturbing than...

The dome at the rear of the structure is impressively handled, but the rest of it is stiff, wooden and seems almost mechanical. Compare this building to Toronto's Old Town Hall, a much smaller structure that is far better proportioned and detailed overall. And the Neo-Gothic style always...

I suppose I'm the only person to look at all this dead, cold, "Gothic" gingerbread claptrap and feel supremely depressed. What a shudder-inducing remnant of our Ye Olde Englishe Imperial past.