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The Jerusalem Train Station

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Post date April 28, 2021
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“Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.” – Yehuda Amichai. The buildings we see, especially public ones, send back a signal of their deeper purpose. Some of these buildings are famous (architecturally speaking) and some simply remind us of the events and ambitions of the places and people that built them1. The Jerusalem […]

Make the ground pay.

An investigation into the Flatiron Building as an Icon of capitalism. As America grew in the late 1800s a new form of empire was emerging. The United States had vast amounts of resources, people and products. New York city was the capital of an economic empire. As capital accumulated in New York city it manifested […]

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