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Building Quotes by Minoru Yamasaki
- We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
- I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger…
- Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of…
- And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
- I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think…
- I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
- And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
- Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously…
- But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for…
- If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and…
- In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
- In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.
- In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of…
- So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as…
- I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine…
- The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
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- The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based… — Mahmoud Abbas
- The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. — Dave Barry
- It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for… — Cecilia Bartoli
- A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany,… — Justin Bieber
- In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't… — Juliette Binoche
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a… — Alvar Aalto
- On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than… — Michael Bloomberg
- You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those… — Michael Bloomberg
- On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in… — Nellie Bly