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  1. Thanks for the inspired and inspiring conversation tonight, @aarieff and @paulgoldberger.
  2. "The man made and the natural make something unbelievably beautiful here in San Francisco; very few places say that about." @PaulGoldberger
  3. "The ultimate Los Angeles building--the TransAmerica Tower--is in San Francisco." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  4. "I have this sense you can get used to anything, architecturally." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  5. "Democracy is sometimes not great for or kind to design." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  6. "There should be more public process than there once was in design, and less than there sometimes is" @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair #cities
  7. "I think @ATTParkSF is one of the best ballparks in the country in terms of urban integration." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  8. "I believe profoundly in preservation, but I also believe in balance." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  9. "A city is a living object; it is not a museum just for the old." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  10. "Modern government buildings can show government is a place for innovation, and things new." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair #cities
  11. "Biggest challenge in preservation right now is the preservation of modernism." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  12. "I don't believe that historic preservation, as some have suggested, has become too powerful. Pile of crap." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  13. "San Francisco not the biggest city in the world, but ought to have more land than the waterfront for an arena." @PaulGoldberger @VanityFair
  14. "Ultimate irony would be to put a basketball arena on San Francisco's Embarcadero; terrible use of that land." @PaulGoldberger @VanityFair
  15. "There is no fail-safe way to go about choosing an architect--design competitions or otherwise." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  16. "No architect does his or her best work in isolation; best work result of dialog btw clients and architects." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  17. "Open design competitions are cumbersome and difficult way of soliciting design ideas." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  18. "It is often disappointing and unfortunate when a building donor or institution makes a unilateral decision" @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  19. "Bilbao Museum in Spain is one of the best intersections of the avant-garde and mainstream tastes." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair
  20. "Frank Gehry really gets upset when people don't get his work. He wants people to understand it." @PaulGoldberger of @VanityFair