The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLENew York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
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Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
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And infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. … Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility.
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In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture’s essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.
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Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance
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In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city’s aniquated support systems, circulation
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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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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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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