Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.
Alvar Aalto
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Frank Lloyd Wright
LifeManBuildingsBuildMoreNever
Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast network of material resources that supports them.
Trevor Paglen
IntelligencePeopleDataBuildings
Destroy and damage infrastructure, public buildings and government buildings. Do not leave them any place from which they can operate to damage Israel. We must be sure that Hamas will be spending many years in rebuilding Gaza and not in attacking Israel.
Eli Yishai
GovernmentBuildingsPlaceWillSure
I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay.
Rosamund Pike
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith
YouBuildingsCreateMonsterFew
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
Minoru Yamasaki
ArchitectureBuildingsGoBuild
Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
Rafael Moneo
BetterBuildingsAlwaysThanModels
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
WorkBuildingsBeenRatherOur
In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.
Ma Yansong
WineBuildingsBadHouseWhiteLike
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.
Jaquelin T. Robertson
GoodCultureBuildingsCreateRight
When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
Ban Ki-moon
WarTreesBuildingsWhateverOut
I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
Doris Lessing
BuildingsFindOutAffectUsWould
Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.
Christo
ArtNew YorkBuildingsNewThings
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
Christopher Alexander
LifeNatureBelieveBuildingsPerson
Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took it and did things to improve it, he's the guy. Now on the dance floor, that belongs to Chubby Checker.
Chubby Checker
DanceBuildingsNowBellImprove
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
Arthur Erickson
AppreciateBuildingsUnderstandWhole
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
Alfred Jarry
DoingBuildingsI CanWaySeeUp
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
Peter Zumthor
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For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new houses of worship came to dominate the landscape. Yankee Stadium is the most storied of these contemporary shrines.
Thomas Hauser
LandscapeBuildingsEarthNewYears
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud
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Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
Mario Botta
ArchitectureBusyYouBuildingsSkin
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