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Buildings Quotes

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Nature Buildings Lines Sharp Must

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

Best City Buildings Houston Saved

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

Doing Buildings I Can Done Kind See

In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City.

Thomas L. Smith

Life Service Fire City Buildings

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture Space Buildings Public

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

Buildings Try Make Humane Firstly

Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.

Roads Buildings Ghetto Living My Own

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

Jurgen Habermas

American Buildings New Nation Force

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Hugh MacDiarmid

World Buildings Stones Ruined Plenty

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

People World Rest You Buildings Us

The public brings our buildings to life, and we try to choreograph a lot of things, but our most successful work functions in unanticipated ways. Like the Blur Building. When little kids got in there, they cried or laughed or ran around. And no matter how much theory we put on top of it, it didn't matter: it worked.

Elizabeth Diller

Life Work Building Blur Buildings

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

Buildings Try Responsible See I See

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

Bernard Tschumi

Good Buildings Everything Being Were

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Mountains I Am Climb Buildings Would

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Words Speak Buildings Own Means

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

Government Better You Buildings Take

The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.

Future Relationship Design Buildings

I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.

Sunset Start Buildings Perfect Want

Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.

George A. Moore

Beautiful Army You Buildings Country

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

Work Buildings Genuine Size Imagine

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

Warm Buildings Earth Summer Ground

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Architecture Doing Buildings Goodness

My buildings are all on budget.

Budget Buildings

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Stephen Ambrose

People Buildings More High Destroyed

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