From the top of the Burj Dubai



...I see...smoldering piles of money -- that look like Buck Rogers towers!



The world's most expensive clothes racks!



More unintended symbolism: this is the Hong Kong pavilion for that upcoming Shanghai expo. Are those two big black blocks the Chinese government -- and the people inside the residents of Hong Kong? And what about those people underneath?

Just asking.



Now this, we'll admit, is decent stuff -- but why must modern architecture always look as though you can't afford it?

Because maybe you can't.