What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLENew York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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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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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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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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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected – accessible and user-friendly.
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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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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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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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 age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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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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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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