Our historic buildings reflect our unique past.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

— Peter Clewes

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right…

— Richard Rogers

When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty;…

— Dave Gibbons

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

— Julia Morgan

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new…

— Alvar Aalto

I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past.

— Ma Yansong

I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.

— Marco Rubio

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings…

— David Chang

Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and…

— Matt Cartwright

“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,…

— Herbert Hoover

I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then…

— Linda Ronstadt

Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings.

— Park Won-soon

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

— Jenova Chen