we *heart* crisis

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1. the party is over. take a look at all those little downward charts in the newspapers

2. a crisis is a threshold

3. architecture—like any other productive enterprise sustained and fed by the long lost boom—is near the low, quiet breaking point between the tipsiness of the last of the few-too-many and the start of a brutal hangover

4. hopefully we won't have to look at those tawdry glowing renderings everywhere anymore