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the role of architecture as a force for urban redevelopment.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
NEVER TOO SMALL: Light Filled Heritage Paris Apartment, 40sqm/430sqft
youtube.comFlorida drew the transient and rootless on the eternal promise of a second chance, with more than its share of scammers and con men. So who was to say the guy living next door wasn’t one of them? A subdivision like Carriage Pointe was Jane Jacobs’s vision of hell.
George Packer • The Unwinding
lively, socially active urban space.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
The loftier the building, the deeper the foundation must be laid. —Thomas à Kempis
Peter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
How can the architecture contain all those lives? Why doesn’t it explode from the pressure?
Jennifer Egan • The Candy House: A Novel
Frank’s new building was a place in which the emotional power of the architecture could equal the emotional power of the music, a place in which the pleasures of being in great public space could once again be united with the excitement of live performance: a surrounding that held forth the promise of bringing musical experience to new and triumpha
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He brought her to another room, this one longer, with even larger windows shoving out against the sea, parquet floors, a ceiling covered in golden friezes and plasterwork, shimmering golden curtains, and an interior wall flanked by a row of white stucco pillars inlaid with gold leaf. The gold shag carpet swallowed her shoes.