Architecture Quote by Barry Eisler

“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all…

— Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie

But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly…

— Muriel Gray

“Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of fire, for…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“I arrive at the Gray Holdings headquarters in downtown Seattle two hours later. The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into…

— Andrew Shaffer

“In the midst of a lush jungle was a compound surrounded by high fences topped with razor wire. The interior of the compound had…

— Jason Tesar

“...sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building.”

— Larry Niven

Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral,…

— Hisham Matar

“The urban sprawl of squat earthen buildings trailed into the woods, layered, unobtrusive, camouflaged by nature, inadvertent interruptions to the greenways. The”

— Maurice Broaddus

“The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers.”

— Jane Thompson

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.

— Jim Butcher

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

— Gottfried Bohm

“Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks. Small lights…

— John Owen Theobald