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- Nov 07, 2020
Buildings Quotes
Lines on the structures that shape a skyline.
This collection of buildings quotes covers cost and value in design, alongside the idea of using flat roofs to bring nature back into dense towns. Explore more under Architecture.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Commemorate
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the small joys that's easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to commemorate the famous on the houses they lived in.
- Nov 07, 2020
My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
- Obvious
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- Nov 07, 2020
When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.
- Deserts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020