- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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
I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the ministries if my father would have simply walked away. When I accepted the role as the next senior pastor, he had agreed to be an ambassador-at-large and raise funds for the endowment fund. He didn't do that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opera is too obsessed with buildings.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
- Aesthetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try firstly to make buildings humane.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort of things that make people stop, digest, and absorb.
- Grandest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
- Enchanting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
St. Petersburg, under the czars, had been a grand city. It was a planned city, and it had - there were all these Parisian architects who had been brought in to build the apartment buildings in the center of town.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.
- Nov 07, 2020
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.
- College Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
- Dragged
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My buildings are more famous than me.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.
- Embassy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
- Cement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
- Profit
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- Nov 07, 2020
My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020