New ideas often need old buildings.

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of…

— Jane Jacobs

New ideas must use old buildings

— Jane Jacobs

Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

— Edwin Land

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

— Colson Whitehead

You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with…

— Sonia Braga

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

— Agnes Gund

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

— Whit Stillman

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

— Ben Katchor

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

— Tadao Ando

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them…

— Christian de Portzamparc

Our beautiful old buildings tell us so much about who we are.

— George Clarke

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

— Farah Diba

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

— Nellie McKay

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole…

— Thom Mayne

Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old.…

— Gwyneth Paltrow