#arch

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers. ↗

— Nick Flynn

#boston #description #ethereal #architecture

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962. ↗

— Owen Hatherley

#housing #social #architecture

Light must always win. ↗

— Maurice Smith

#architecture

That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#city-planning #new-york-city #architecture

Architect without Pencil is like Rock-star without Guitar. ↗

— Vinayak Hanchate

#architecture

He considered razing the house and rebuilding, but he realized that houses are not haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves,our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#architecture

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains. ↗

— Leon Krier

#community #architecture

Honestly, the only question most Americans ask about a new building at this point is basically: Is it a soul-sucking eyesore of cheap-ass despair? It's not? Whew. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#architecture #humor #architecture

If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#architecture

Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put together to form the whole is more important than any of the parts taken in isolation. ↗

— Bill Hillier

#urbanism #architecture