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- Gap
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new way to see what interesting things can emerge.
- Fairer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020