An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLENothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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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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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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The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. … ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure
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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected – accessible and user-friendly.
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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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Waiting is a special kind of activity – if activity is the right word for it – because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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