"When the Great Fire of London destroyed most……" — Norman Foster
"When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been."
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22 Quotes by Norman Foster
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I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.
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Architecture is an expression of values.
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It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.
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Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in…
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I think you never stop learning.
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I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject…
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