The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEWashington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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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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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 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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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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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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It is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
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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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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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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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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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