Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these

 

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.


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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

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In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson has a winner.

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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. -Ada Louise Huxtable
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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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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. -Ada Louise Huxtable
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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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