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“Taking it for granite’ is a case in point.
Following a long winding avenue planted with plane trees, you continue up the 392 granite steps of the ceremonial staircase to the actual memorial hall.
The most poignant part is said to be video interviews with Holocaust survivors: "A faceless mass resolves eloquently into a single person" (Michael Kimmelman, the New York Times ). The building itself--a gray granite hexagon in Battery Park--does not fare half as well: It "conveys none of the brilliant complexity displayed inside" (Herbert Muschamp, the New York Times ).
Stand on either of the circular paving stones set between the square’s twin 17th-century fountains and the red granite Egyptian obelisk to appreciate the harmony of the quadruple rows of Doric columns, so perfectly aligned that they seem like a single row.
"The granite Scotsman at NATO," said Corriere della Sera of Milan.