Showing posts with label city observed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label city observed. Show all posts

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Paradox

Split-Rocker, by Jeff Koons, at Rockefeller Center

"New York remains what it has always been: a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence."
Paul Goldberger, The City Observed: New York

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Arrogant

Seagram Building

"New York is an arrogant city; it has always wanted to be all things to all people, and a surprising amount of the time it has succeeded."
Paul Goldberger, The City Observed: New York