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And exciting buildings are fine periodically.


Minoru Yamasaki
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.


Winston Churchill
Tags: Our Us Shape
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Architecture is about public space held by buildings.


Richard Rogers
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Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.


John Portman
Tags: People Way Other
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Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.


Frei Otto
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My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.


Mark Webber
Tags: Over Mother Took
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The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.


Nicholas Haslam
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Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.


China Mieville
Tags: Ever Two Since
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.


Philip Johnson
Tags: Best City Saved
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.


Zaha Hadid
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I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.


Jared Kushner
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Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.


Meg White
Tags: More Than World
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
Minoru Yamasaki
Tags: Work Been Our
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I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.


Megan Smith
Tags: Our Lot Now
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.
Rem Koolhaas
My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.
Harry Triguboff
Tags: Good Very Will
Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
Alain Robert
Tags: Like More Very
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
Stephen Ambrose
Tags: People More Than
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
Tags: Then First Doing
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
Bob Dylan
Tags: Music You More
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
Julie Burchill
Tags: Who Made Here
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.
Christian Dior
Tags: Good Like Wanted
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.
Dick Wolf
Tags: Car People Get
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
Frank Gehry
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
Minoru Yamasaki
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.
Ben Nicholson
Tags: You Me Really
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.
Moshe Safdie
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
Christopher Alexander
Tags: Nature Life Which
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
Daniel Libeskind
I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.
Hayao Miyazaki
The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
J. Carter Brown
Tags: Time Best Now
Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life.
Matt Cartwright
Tags: Health Life Our
If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.
Bill Viola
Tags: Time You Been
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.
Cesar Pelli
Tags: Our Go Many
What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.
Jurgen Habermas
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The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
Raymond Sokolov
Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.
Sanjay Dutt
Tags: Great Food People
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
Minoru Yamasaki
Tags: Age You About
Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.
Peter Welch
Tags: Change Up Our
You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere.
Donald Trump
Tags: Power You Because