Untouchable
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Here are the stairs you may recognize from one of the final scenes in 1987’s The Untouchables. What I find most remarkable about these stairs is the wear the soft marble has taken over the years. If only these stairs could talk and tell you about the legions of persons that have traversed them and Union Station, eventually wearing them down so. It is as though you can see a canyon carved by a river of travelers.
People don’t make buildings like this anymore, or at least, they rarely do. Newer train stations lack this grand scale, perhaps because the rail industry is no longer the titan it once was. Air travel and airports, for all their prosperity, simply don’t live up to the standard set by Union Station, Penn Station and many others. I admit that O’Hare Airport has some magnificent spaces crafted by a wonderful architect, but they are still crowded spaces, built to place a small footprint of habitation on an ocean of concrete.
Untouchable
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Here are the stairs you may recognize from one of the final scenes in 1987’s The Untouchables. What I find most remarkable about these stairs is the wear the soft marble has taken over the years. If only these stairs could talk and tell you about the legions of persons that have traversed them and Union Station, eventually wearing them down so. It is as though you can see a canyon carved by a river of travelers.
People don’t make buildings like this anymore, or at least, they rarely do. Newer train stations lack this grand scale, perhaps because the rail industry is no longer the titan it once was. Air travel and airports, for all their prosperity, simply don’t live up to the standard set by Union Station, Penn Station and many others. I admit that O’Hare Airport has some magnificent spaces crafted by a wonderful architect, but they are still crowded spaces, built to place a small footprint of habitation on an ocean of concrete.