Kicked a Building Lately?Ada Louis Huxtable brings clarity as well as passion to her consideration of the problems and pleasures of architecture and urban planning. |
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Page 141
... demolition is a hard - nosed way of saving taxes when the properties cease to be profitable , and no buyers or investment builders are in sight . It is a vicious form of disinvestment . In New York , the size of such mutilated sites ...
... demolition is a hard - nosed way of saving taxes when the properties cease to be profitable , and no buyers or investment builders are in sight . It is a vicious form of disinvestment . In New York , the size of such mutilated sites ...
Page 142
... demolition of Grand Central Terminal for tax savings - even without building a replacement— undoubtedly occurred to the business minds involved . It is a terribly expensive blitz for the city not only in terms of taxes lost , but of ...
... demolition of Grand Central Terminal for tax savings - even without building a replacement— undoubtedly occurred to the business minds involved . It is a terribly expensive blitz for the city not only in terms of taxes lost , but of ...
Page 246
... demolition in 1958 , when shards of disintegrating ornament threatened passersby and the kind- est word in a Congressional bill of particulars calling for its demolition was firetrap . One hundred years earlier , the red brick and ...
... demolition in 1958 , when shards of disintegrating ornament threatened passersby and the kind- est word in a Congressional bill of particulars calling for its demolition was firetrap . One hundred years earlier , the red brick and ...
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The Monumental Muddle | 3 |
Failures | 10 |
The Lehman Wing of the Metropolitan Museum | 13 |
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