Abandoned buildings Quote by Jane Jacobs

New ideas often need old buildings.

— Jane Jacobs

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

— Anonymous

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of…

— Jane Jacobs

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

— Nellie McKay

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that…

— Carl Sandburg

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

— Farah Diba

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there.…

— Moshe Safdie

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm

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

— Kevin McCloud

If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously.…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson

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