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.
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.
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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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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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Really living without clutter takes an iron will … This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife’s occupations, picking up.
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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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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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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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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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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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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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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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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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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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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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