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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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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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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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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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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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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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man.
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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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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others – I am one of them – abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
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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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