If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
There's this misconception globally that the platform is about property groups and big property owners renting out entire buildings full-time. — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
The truth is I don't really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing,… — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer.… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
There is a sense of civic connection to the city when you light up iconic buildings or sites. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them. — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
“In your lifetime you build two buildings, one of accomplishment, the other of failure, and only you can decide how big each… — Collin Johnson Copy Share Image
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs. — Laurie David Copy Share Image
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto,… — Amybeth McNulty Copy Share Image
With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I'm flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever. — Dr. Disrespect Copy Share Image
Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
“The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of… — Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen Copy Share Image
Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
I've got a design for an airship in my head, which I'm going to play around with. I've got ideas for buildings… — Edd China Copy Share Image
Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
“The buildings were as real yet ethereal as the abandoned shell of a cicada, clinging to a tree branch, molded by the… — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
