In response of PeppermintPig's proposal and conversation, as seen here.

What makes cities interesting in my opinion, is the little things. The little bits and pieces amoungst the greater schemes, the moments of interest and intrigue. The incongruous disconformities that splice a city into planes of perceptability, the spaces that make you think. Sure, the Institute could be demolished/relocated realtively easily; and a nice clean imposing set of government buildings laid out in the surrounding area. I have no objection to this.

But we could do something a lot more interesting. We could leave the Institute where it is, and work the government buildings into the existing spatial formation. If done well, it would contrast new and old, imposing and decaying. It would show a narrative, a kind of urban evolution.

We're not a city that rewrites. We're a city that builds upon, that references, that never stops growing and changing. We can use this as an opportunity to show that.