He wasn't very good, unfortunately,
but his obsession with art and architecture was so strong that Albert Speer ended up in one of the most powerful positions in Nazi Germany and he was merely an architect. It's not fashionable to say so (unless you are that utter minge Bryan Ferry) but I confess to liking some of Speer's work, overblown and grandiose as it was. The guilt-ridden tearing-down of all Nazi buildings at the end of the war will, in time, I believe, be seen as a great shame and even a bit of a crime.

His subterranean base under Berlin would have been fucking incredible if it had been finished.

cf Ceaucescu's Palace in Bucharest - ideologically dodgy as fuck and built on the bodies of his citizens, but what an incredible building. It is IMMENSE.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:56, Reply)