Buildings Quotes

• 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.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Life
  • Russia
  • Display

• What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Good
  • America
  • Quality

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

  

  Kenneth Frampton
  • Technology
  • Buildings
  • Optimized

• 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.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Art
  • Cutting
  • Architecture

• But I can tell you that the building is supposed to be somewhere near Saddam's old palace, from where he ruled this country, and where he kept his gifts. And millions and millions of dollars have been spent fortifying the building for security.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Buildings
  • Palace
  • Saddam`s

• The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Business
  • Sunrise

• I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Training
  • Believed
  • Explosives

• We know that the hope was that the focus of the buildings would remain artistic. We've tried, not believing we're able to assuage any of those hurt feelings, to embrace the spirit of the place by making art a focal part of our environment.

  

  Michael Rose Black Uhuru
  • Art
  • Focus
  • Embrace

• These are pretty substantial buildings. We are reasonably confident that we may land two or three new courts in the next few years.

  

  James Wyatt
  • Confident
  • Buildings
  • Courts

• In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Violence
  • Forgotten
  • Russia

• Sir Isaac Newton legendarily wrote the famous Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which gave us principles that a couple of hundred years later were good enough to land a man on the moon. Then he wrote the slightly less well known Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Artes Magicis, which codified the magical techniques that allow me to inconvenience paper targets and Nightingale to demolish small agricultural buildings.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Moon
  • Targets
  • Philosophies

• The site will have two medical office-type uses. Basically, they'll be identical buildings.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Medical
  • Buildings
  • Site

• We know what gets cuts first. It's going to be the maintenance of the buildings. It's going to be professional development for teachers, and after that, it's going to go right on down the line to school staffing.

  

  Ann Miller
  • Professional
  • Development
  • Teachers

• The town of Morehead had a business district shaped like a funnel. The funnel's mouth was corroded with low buildings of stone and wooden fronts.

  

  Edward Anderson
  • Business
  • Buildings
  • District

• We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Up
  • Ruins
  • Demolish

• I was reminded of the Winchester Mystery House, which I’d seen as a child on a trip with my parents. From above, there was the same sort of random conglomeration—peaked roofs connected to flat roofs, shakes and shingles, tarpaper and skylights—and I realized that Frank had constructed his house from the town, connecting the buildings until they made one enormous edifice. “Jesus,” I breathed.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Child
  • My Parents
  • Conglomeration

• The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Age
  • Day

• Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Wisdom
  • Unity
  • Material

• The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Art
  • Environment
  • Dialogue

• In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Drawing
  • Hague
  • Louis Sullivan

• Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Real
  • Today
  • Wealth

• Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Architecture
  • Public
  • Buildings

• Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.

  

  Rick Renzi
  • Feature
  • Properties
  • Generally

• I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Important
  • Light
  • Shadow

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