The Station Fire Vs. The Observatory

“There is nothing quite so wild as a fire that, as of Wednesday morning, had spread across 140,000 acres — an area roughly as large as the City of Chicago. … And there is nothing quite so man-made as a domed observatory sitting on a mountain — a small, human presence dwarfed by its natural surroundings. … [Daniel] Burnham and the architects are all about permanence. The Station Fire is all about eradicating permanence.”