Buildings Quotes

• I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • China
  • Remains
  • Wander

• As property prices started rising, developers snatched up bomb sites and derelict buildings and erected the shapeless concrete lumps that have made the ’70s the shining beacon of architectural splendor that it is.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Property
  • Prices
  • Developers

• There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Game
  • Know
  • Play

• Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • City
  • Buildings
  • Detroit

• The Supreme Court got it right in a 1973 case, PEARL v. Nyquist, when it said bluntly: “If the State may not erect buildings in which religious activities are to take place, it may not maintain such buildings or renovate them when they fall into disrepair.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Activities
  • Buildings
  • Desrepair

• Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Look
  • Buildings

• I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Future
  • Buildings
  • Houses

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