Building Quote by Charles T. Canady

“It is a common architectural strategy to build courtrooms without windows, to enhance the effect of a chamber isolated from the everyday world, a…

— William Landay

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right…

— Richard Rogers

A courtroom is supposed to be a place where the status quo can be disrupted - even upended - when the Constitution or laws…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its…

— Howard Zinn

I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life and death…

— Marcia Clark

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree… Whereas when buildings are of durable materials,…

— Thomas Jefferson

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect…

— Leon Krier

If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if…

— J. W. N. Sullivan

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of…

— David Allan Coe

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

As judges, we are public servants. And it is up to the people to determine what the structure and form and function of the…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson