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There are two main methods of making ornament: carving and casting.
Carving involves removing material until only the desired form remains; casting involves shaping a material into the desired form while it is soft and then hardening it. Not all architectural ornament is produced in these ways (for example, wrought ironwork and ornamental brickwork are not), but a surprisingly high proportion is, so I shall focus on these two methods here.
The Beauty of Concrete - By Samuel Hughes
worksinprogress.news
If you are going to see something you neither value nor aspire to value, you are not doing much of anything besides locomoting.
The Case Against Travel
newyorker.com
America’s outstanding car balance almost doubled in the ten years between 2010 and 2020, from $740 billion to $1.3 trillion, eclipsing credit card debt, and dealers now make more money on loan interest and insurance than they do selling cars.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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