Even before they were built, though, critics derided the Buck Rogers quality of the towers, noting that new technologies and new architectural paradigms often bring new vulnerabilities.
Investors are particularly concerned about the Nine Elms and Battersea area, which is receiving a £15bn revamp, with new towers being built that critics have derided as the "Hong Kongification" of London.
When it was built, many critics called the building too extreme, and lacking in style.
The two senators played key roles in writing the NASA blueprint and outlining many specifics of the rocket they wanted NASA to build, leading critics to sarcastically call it the Senate Launch System.
The owner-developers — including big-oil company Aera Energy — originally wanted to build what critics called a small city of 1,375 homes, a resort and stores, promising to clean up and restore the damaged oilfield and open it up to the public.
Mr. White was proud of the Hart Building, at the time the most expensive federal building ever built, though architecture critics and others found it boxy, themeless and lacking notable external features.
The authors provide a thoughtful and balanced corrective to critics on the left who believe that our present economic troubles demonstrate the fundamental failure of the liberal democratic capitalist ideas on which American society is built, and the critics on the right who believe that only a return to 19th-century small government policies can save us.
Noting that many of the critics built their careers at the broadcaster, Cohen said: "I'm finding a little too often that people who work for the BBC and are well rewarded for it are quick to attack or criticise the organisation in public rather than deal with any issues or concerns internally.
The government hopes the changes will lead to more social housing being built - but critics fear an exodus of poor people from the inner cities as they are forced out by higher rents and a new cap on housing benefit payments.
The proposed regulations would target only new sources of methane, such as new wells drilled and pipelines built -- so critics say that it would miss some of the biggest sources, such as existing pipelines that leak gas.
