The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson has a winner.

Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor and objects of civic pride. Now they are caverns of gloom.