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It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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The building is a national tragedy – a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know.
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California … is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.
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Design Establishes Heart Hope Passion Quest
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. … At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.
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Goes Skyscraper Style Unbearable Urban
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Disaster Imagination Marble Substituted
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization.
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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste.
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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Blush Competence Country Computer Laid
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
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Dubious Excellent Job Saying Would

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