"You have to remember that symbols are especially important to a man who is doing filthy, repulsive stuff on a daily basis but can fool the community with a clean-as-the-driven-snow facade".
(The New York city post office has this marvellous inscription from Herodotus around its facade: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds". We have John Grierson – but they represent the same idealism).
Mr. Holl is also at work on a new addition to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and an extension to the architecture school at the University of Minnesota -- "during winter, strips of snow will enliven the facades with sparkling white horizontal lines".
Talk story about the inscription on the facade of the Post Office Building: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds".
The New Yorker, February 12 , 1938P. 11 Talk story about the inscription on the facade of the Post Office Building: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds".
Lining the top of the facade is the famous quote: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds".
More recently in 2006, Snow's installation The Windows Suite graced yet another building facade in Toronto.
The 1912 Post Office facade — also by McKim, Mead & White, with the "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom" inscription — will then become the face of Amtrak.
Above him, carved in stone across the block-long facade, was the famous motto about swift couriers moving mail through sleet and snow.
He and other members of the Bolivian Andean Club, which operates from a building in downtown La Paz whose facades are sprayed with graffiti, have followed the studies of their disappearing snow with alarm.
The facade of fjell-shaped Lappia House, finished in 1975, might be as cold and grey as slushy snow, but Aalto's simple choice of making the ridge of the roof mimic the fjells, saves the building from being dreary.
