A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.
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A suburban mall turned vertical.
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Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
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Integrity has been enhanced.
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It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
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It is something akin to boarding the Concorde and then discovering at the end of your trip that you had debarked at Grand Central Terminal.
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Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.
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