Decade Top 10

Various architecture critics have been running "decade top 10" lists. I went through John King's yesterday, focused on San Francisco. This decade has produced oddities like David Chipperfield's revival of the stripped-down classicism so popular in fascist circles in the 1930s (and later with Philip Johnson). I wonder if the Burj won't be the signature building of the decade when historians look back at it, the way the Empire State Building came to epitomize the 1930s? Design per se isn't really the deciding factor - consider the popularity of SF's Transamerica Pyramid. Despite their mediocrity, these buildings capture the Zeitgeist. That happens less frequently than once a decade, I imagine. SF's Ferry Building (1904) is another that does so, which suggests a much longer cycle (per city).