Buildings Quotes · Page 4

i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

— Suheir Hammad

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

— Andrew Shaffer

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

— Shigeru Ban

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

— Jan Gehl

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

— Julia Morgan

I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.

— Santiago Calatrava

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

— Peter Zumthor

“Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhere is felt everywhere.”

— Lois Farfel Stark

The sentimentalist in me loves it when the important things we say and do can be tied to buildings and landscape.

— Michael Rosen

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

— Winston Churchill

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

— Norman Foster

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

— Ma Yansong

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

— Kevin Myers

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a…

— Renzo Piano

The Shark Tank was one of the best buildings to play in, and we had a lot of memories there.

— Joe Thornton

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

— Annabelle Selldorf

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes…

— Michael Heizer

Academies can also flog off land and buildings, if the much weakened local authorities agree. Serious money can be made, management salaries…

— Michael Rosen

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall…

— Michael Mandelbaum

Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the…

— Evgeny Morozov

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the…

— Anonymous

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry…

— Will Self

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did…

— Glenn Ligon

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end,…

— Kimberly Quinn

I like to study culture and buildings and it's something I do on tour.

— Juan Martin del Potro

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

— Marco Rubio

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

— Agnes Gund

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

— Richard Rogers

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

— Zaha Hadid

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

— Cesar Pelli

I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

— Hugh MacDiarmid

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

— Meg White

“Buildings are not very good at remembering the people who once occupied them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

— Richard Painter

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

— Tadao Ando

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

— Stephen Gardiner

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

— Thom Mayne

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

— Ekta Kapoor

“village of stores, homes, and other buildings where”

— Jana Riess