Building Quote by Gary Hustwit

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

— Gary Hustwit

Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities, but they…

— Gary Hustwit

Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

— Gary Hustwit

They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments.

— Harry Seidler

“village of stores, homes, and other buildings where”

— Jana Riess

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We…

— Ma Yansong

So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some…

— Gary Hustwit

“It is astonishing that critical scholarship has asked forever about the identification of these store-house cities, but without ever asking about the skewed exploitative…

— Walter Brueggemann

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

— Ma Yansong

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was…

— Thomas Heatherwick

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you…

— Clarence Clemons

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

— James Howard Kunstler