From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor… — Hugh Ferriss Copy Share Image
The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed.… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“I stop in my tracks to look up, completely disrupting the flow of tourist traffic. It’s directly in front of me, in… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
Hong Kong might be a small place, but its people make it unique. The iconic images of skyscrapers in this bustling metropolis… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
