Buildings Quotes

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.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

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

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.

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

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

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

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

My buildings are all on budget.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.