That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE. 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.
More Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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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 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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No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
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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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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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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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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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There are two kinds of people in the world – those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.
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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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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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And infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. … Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
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There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.
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