the Tower of Jewels in SF only stood for like a year. why build something that beautiful to knock it down??

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. look up photos of the Tower of Jewels. 43 stories worth of detail, covered in something like 100,000 cut glass jewels that twinkled in searchlights, the whole Marina district was this enormous domed plaster city. Palace of Fine Arts colon……