Respect at play here was about the 'memory', that's what the discussion was focusing on when we were discussing the article. The aftermath was that many young people from a different audience got to know what is that concrete building and why it is there.
Isn't this one of the purposes of a mounument in the first place?
Well, actually it was not trivial at all and we had big internal discussions on how to do that properly and respectfully, taking the chance to let our readers (that follow skateboarding) know what lays behind these monuments.
I do really understand what you write, but I am also grateful for having been able to discover history in that way.