Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
Ernie Pyle
BridgesBuildingsDarkShadowsUs
In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.
Elizabeth Diller
MeUncomfortableExerciseBuildings
In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.
Charles Francis Richter
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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
Alexander Jackson Davis
ArchitectureAmericanBuildingsMost
Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
Alain Robert
BuildingsFeelingRockMoreHeight
The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.
Jim Bakker
DoingBuildingsAliveOutsideBox
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place.
Terry Zwigoff
SnowMeRememberBuildingsBrick
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.
Jenova Chen
ThoughtBuildingsBornAlwaysYears
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
Neri Oxman
StruggleArchitectureToolsBuildings
I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.
John Lanchester
FoodSkyBuildingsNewLondonGray
Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.
Isabella Bird
RiverHandsomeLongBuildingsWall
Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.
Michael Imperioli
TimePainCityYouBuildingsSee
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
Harry Seidler
AmericaBuildingsEarlyAbundance
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
Amiri Baraka
GovernmentSlaveryFlyBuildings
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright
ChildrenSunBuildingsEarthToo
I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.
Steven Holl
GodGreenSorryBuildingsSayWant
Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.
Agnes Gund
ArtBuildingsImportantRecycling
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
Robert Evans
CreativityBuildingsPrinciplesWill
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.
Ben Nicholson
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It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here.
Rupert Friend
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
Tawni O'Dell
TimeWarBuildingsNewsNewHeroes
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Minoru Yamasaki
QualityBuildingsKnowImportantNow
Lebanon is not only burning buildings and people crying in the street. When you say 'Lebanon,' especially to foreigners, that's the first thing they think of.
Nadine Labaki
PeopleThinkYouBuildingsStreet
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.
Louise Slaughter
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