Building Quotes

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

David Adjaye
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

William Hague
- Country
- Burning
- Euro

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.

Yotam Ottolenghi
- Building
- Fish
- Heat
When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

Aaron Neville
- Growing
- Same
- Year
There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.

Merle Haggard
- Trying
- Kids
- Perfect
It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.

Yi So-Yeon
- Women
- Building
- Bathroom
Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

Rachel
- People
- Building
- Charm