One of the buildings my dad designed when he was just starting out is being torn down. Apparently in the era of the ATM, a bank has no need for so many drive-thru lanes, and rather than renovate and keep using their current building, they'd rather raze it to the ground and move across the street to a two-ATMed shack.

It seems so wasteful. Why go to all the bother of paying for a lovely glass barrel-arched ceiling if you are just going to smash it to pieces several years down the line. I find it really hard to believe that the building couldn't have been converted into something else, or that it will be worth more as a rubble-filled parking lot.

Even though I know that it probably is.

Better yet, the building is along my dad's route to work, so he gets to look at the wreckage twice a day.