What's so great about Old Buildings?

[pablo42]

This building has a lot of those qualities (and some more others), but is it bad just because it's glass and steel and modern?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40936407@N07/4096006418/

I don't think so. I like the new buildings, not all of them, but certainly some. I like Liverpool 1 and the new World Museum.