- Enchanting
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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 May 30, 2021
- 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