Building Quote by Santiago Calatrava

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

— Markus Zusak

The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in…

— Louis Sullivan

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

— Rem Koolhaas

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

— Lisa Joy

The truth is I don't really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my hometown because…

— Cesar Pelli

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of…

— David Allan Coe

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

I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it on the…

— 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

“It is. It’s got the most gorgeous view over the sea, too,’ said Alicia. ‘It’s built on the cliff, you know. It’s lucky you’re…

— Enid Blyton

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

— Tony Scott

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building…

— Frank Lloyd Wright