 In his 1980 book, "The Shock of the New", Robert Hughes refers to the buildings as being in "The International Power Style of the Fifties", comparing the buildings to those built by Fascist governments (Fascist architecture).Architecture critic Martin Filler, quoted in "The Making Of Empire State Plaza", says "There is no relationship at all between buildings and site, neither at grade nor atop the podium, since all vestiges of the existing site have been so totally obliterated.Thus, as one stands on the Plaza itself, there is an eerie feeling of detachment.