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Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.
Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.
Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
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- Audrey Niffenegger
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- Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
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