Buildings Quotes · Page 7

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

— Arne Jacobsen

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

— Damon Dash

The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

— Marco Rubio

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

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

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

— Laurie David

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

Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took…

— Chubby Checker

After 23 years closeted at Westminster, where often all you can see out of the windows are other parliamentary buildings, I appreciate…

— Ann Widdecombe

In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that.…

— Mr. T

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was…

— Helge Ingstad

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings…

— Christopher Alexander

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts…

— David Adjaye

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the…

— Andrea Bocelli

As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

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

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

In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad…

— Ma Yansong

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

“In your lifetime you build two buildings, one of accomplishment, the other of failure, and only you can decide how big each…

— Collin Johnson

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

— Peter Clewes

Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the…

— David Olusoga

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

There is a sense of civic connection to the city when you light up iconic buildings or sites.

— Munira Mirza

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

There's this misconception globally that the platform is about property groups and big property owners renting out entire buildings full-time.

— Joe Gebbia

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

— Lucy Worsley

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

— Anonymous

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very…

— Charles Francis Richter

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

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

— Roger Scruton

I've heard a lot about the iconic buildings and all that Dubai has to offer and can't wait to experience it for…

— Pia Wurtzbach

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

— Frank Gehry

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

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

— Ben Katchor

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

“The buildings were as real yet ethereal as the abandoned shell of a cicada, clinging to a tree branch, molded by the…

— Linda Lafferty