British - Designer | May 8, 1959 -
Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.
Kevin McCloud
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You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.
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It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?
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A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.
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I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.
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I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.
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Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.
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What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think.
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We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.
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I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
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People have got to get over the fear of not being able to trust others. I come across people who are very successful in their own sphere, and really believe they can do it all themselves, but they can't.
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There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
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