Attics Quote by Leonard Cohen

I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.

— Jaclyn Smith

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered…

— Richard Dean Anderson

New ideas often need old buildings.

— Jane Jacobs

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

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

— Gladys Taber

One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at…

— Daniel Clowes

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

— Frank Gehry

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

— Anonymous

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of…

— Ayn Rand

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

— David Chipperfield