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If you look at Rockefeller Center in detail, it's a very elegant plan: higher and lower levels that lead you from one to the other, streets cut through to keep the human scale. You always feel you're going around a corner, not around a wind-swept plaza, into some other area that has an inviting activity.

Ada Louise Huxtable

In New York, the towers of the mammoth World Trade Center rise aggressively over everything else, gleaming like new-minted money — the architecture of power.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Who's afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don't know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

Ada Louise Huxtable