The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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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 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 supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history.Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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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 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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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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