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Building Quotes by Zaha Hadid
- It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new…
- I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a…
- When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of…
- Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it…
- As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings…
- The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
- People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
- What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
- Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort…
- If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that -…
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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