Surreal is perhaps the best description for Rosslyn, which is Arlington's major high-rise center: it resembles a set in a bad science fiction movie. Benjamin Forgey, the Washington Post's architecture critic, claimed that it was “dramatically transformed from a backwater to boomtown at a bad architectural moment.” Here and there a fragment of a pre–World War II low-rise city can be spied, but the explosive growth of the 1960s to the 1990s has transformed the area into the world's worst collection of (about sixty) mid-level high rises and a stunning example of anti-civility. Only a few buildings are worth noting.