Building Quote by Rem Koolhaas

Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic.

— Charlotte Riddell

Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is…

— Ai Weiwei

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They…

— Herbert Muschamp

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for…

— Frank Gehry

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

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

— Rem Koolhaas

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears…

— Santiago Calatrava

“I stop in my tracks to look up, completely disrupting the flow of tourist traffic. It’s directly in front of me, in all its…

— Kristin Rae

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