- Distance
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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
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alexander Graham Bell brought us the telephone. He owns the telephones in the buildings. Thomas Edison owns the lightbulb. Whether they took it and did things to improve it, he's the guy. Now on the dance floor, that belongs to Chubby Checker.
- Curves
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.
- Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.
- Empire State
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- Nov 07, 2020
The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020