Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEClutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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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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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death.
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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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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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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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Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
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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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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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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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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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