Architecture Quote by Rem Koolhaas

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

— Tea Leoni

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no.…

— Julian Casablancas

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

— M.I.A

Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith…

— Rem Koolhaas

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to…

— Joe Elliott

There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that sets the…

— Harold C. Schonberg

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

— Noah Baumbach

The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has…

— Tina Fey

You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the…

— Daniel Libeskind

We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely…

— Gaby Hoffmann

“The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms…

— Milan Kundera

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

— Miguel McKelvey