All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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