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.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEThere 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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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. … At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.
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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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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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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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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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We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
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