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The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well…

— James Howard Kunstler

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

— James Howard Kunstler

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's…

— Paul Goldberger

I think we need to question this idea that architecture is about making buildings. Actually, a building is about the most expensive solution you…

— Suman Rai

The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced…

— James Howard Kunstler

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

— Kenneth Frampton

Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is…

— Ai Weiwei

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

— Zaha Hadid

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end…

— Martin Filler

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

— James Howard Kunstler

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and…

— Santiago Calatrava