Appreciation Quote by Hilary Farr

Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.

— Fiona Bruce

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people…

— Bjarke Ingels

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

— Ma Yansong

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

— Kevin McCloud

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing…

— Harry Seidler

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

— Robert A. M. Stern

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our…

— David Chipperfield

You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but…

— Cesar Pelli

“Beautiful hills occupied completely by the buildings still look comfortable, because they know that buildings will go in the future and they will be…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a…

— Moby

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole…

— Thom Mayne

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen…

— Anonymous

The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables…

— Carl L. Becker