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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
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
- Engineering
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- Nov 07, 2020
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
- Nov 07, 2020
My buildings are all on budget.
- Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020