Almost Quote by Rem Koolhaas

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

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

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of…

— Bruce Sterling

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other…

— Frank Gehry

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals…

— Paul Oakenfold

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which…

— Ma Yansong

What's interesting is whilst Shanghai has gone stellar - literally, in these massive buildings which have appeared since I first visited - Beijing has…

— George Osborne

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

— Ma Yansong

I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for…

— Helmut Jahn

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

— Kenneth Frampton

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

— Tadao Ando

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they…

— Alex Steffen