Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is,… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
“All old building become crypts the moment they're finished, A shrine to a time that's already dead.” — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the… — Andy Barrie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
The hidden village was something we found when we went to research in China we climbed a mountain in the Sichuan province… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.' — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure... The sincere Christian… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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