Who Says Old Can't Be Beautiful?

My apartment was renovated no more than 3 years ago. Already I am battling patches of mold on the walls. Modern buildings in China typically age at lightning speed; apartment buildings erected in 1998 are already considered old and paint seemingly chips off walls as you sleep.

Below is rot on one of the major supporting beams of the Shanghai Botanical Gardens greenhouse. I know it's festering and probably not very healthy, but I can't help being strangely attracted to it. Is that wrong?

> February 2007. Botanical Gardens, Shanghai.