Engineering Quote by Billy Zane

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent…

— Donna Tartt

Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.

— Santiago Calatrava

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might…

— Edvard Grieg

[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And…

— Cynthia Nixon

“The skyline was a jagged silhouette against the setting sun, a collage of monetary ambition and cultural decadence.”

— Ryan Gelpke

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel…

— Edvard Grieg

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

— Victor Hugo

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So,…

— Daniel Libeskind

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got…

— Derek Jacobi

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

— Ove Arup

Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes,…

— Ludwig von Mises