Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEThe 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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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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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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.
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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean.
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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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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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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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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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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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If you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. … their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.
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The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale – and ultimately it is a gamble – demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.
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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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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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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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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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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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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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All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age.Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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