- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 prints of the logo on it - why do they do this?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you never stop learning.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.
- Encapsulate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can find, occasionally, some absolutely fantastic things in hunting shops. I've got one jacket that I just happened across which is a kind of unwashed leather - completely anonymous but absolutely special.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants will say: 'You won't believe this, but people were once allowed to hurl a couple of tons of dangerous metal around smashing into each other.'
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020