Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEThat turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history.Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
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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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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man.
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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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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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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There’s no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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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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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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