Blowhard, Esq. writes:
A courtyard I stumbled across at Barnard College, on Broadway across the street from Columbia University.
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They just needed the budget to put some horizontal detailing between the fourth and fifth floors: the long expanse with only occasional ornamentation between the third and seventh floors is a little dull.
How much of architecture is having enough budget? Tom Wolfe said that the chief pleasure of architecture is conspicuous consumption that you have rightful access to.
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Nah, I reckon they got it just right. Sometimes the skill lays in knowing what not to add.
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