Buildings Quotes
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
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It points to a growing interest among businesses in using fuel cells to power factories and buildings. The most compelling reason for GM to collaborate with Dow is ultimately to reduce the cost of fuel cells and improve their durability so that we may put them in cars by the end of the decade.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
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I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind...
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We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
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You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
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I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.
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I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.
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These are pretty substantial buildings. We are reasonably confident that we may land two or three new courts in the next few years.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
