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• Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
• We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation
• Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers.…
• The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and…
• Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.
• I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency…
• Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
• There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
• Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
• I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts…
• Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
• I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only…

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