During the latter part of the twentieth century, in the sphere of architecture, Kenneth Frampton said that, “the civic institution has become a fragile entity.” Unfortunately and lamentably, it seems that the only way to achieve something more than piecemeal transformations of the civic structures that strengthen the urban fabric is through wholesale destruction. Wars and catastrophe necessitate a rebuilding and hence a rethinking of what was. Thus a void appears when architecture and the prevailing powers fail at imagining and building civic structures that foster and add cohesion to the urban ensemble of space and structure. Instead, we have architecture’s starlets suspended amidst less fortunate players.