Ada Louise Huxtable quotes
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
A discreet study in expensive nonostentation.
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson has a winner.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor and objects of civic pride. Now they are caverns of gloom.
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.
Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.