Age Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I'm scared of high buildings.

— Udo Kier

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's…

— Paul Goldberger

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it…

— Joyce Brothers

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're…

— Donald Trump

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

— Michael Mandelbaum

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which…

— Ma Yansong

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its…

— Martin Filler

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number…

— David Rockefeller

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

— Rem Koolhaas

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

— James Howard Kunstler

[On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day.…

— Starhawk