Buildings Quotes

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

Zaha Hadid

America Between Britain Buildings

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

Zaha Hadid

Architecture Be nice Buildings Design

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

Zaha Hadid

Buildings Car Expensive Particularly

One of the small joys that's easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to commemorate the famous on the houses they lived in.

A. A. Gill

Blue Buildings Commemorate Easy

I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

Rachel Boston

Adventure Amazed Amazing Any

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Rafael Moneo

Always Better Buildings Drawings

Buildings are forms of performances.

Rafael Vinoly

Buildings Forms Performance

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.

Rand Beers

Been Bombing Buildings Car

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

Raymond Sokolov

Across Bar Building Buildings

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

Rem Koolhaas

Beautiful Because Buildings City

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

Renzo Piano

Buildings Children Family Happy

The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.

Richard Drew

Been Before Being Building

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings.

Richard Lamm

Basic Buildings Care Citizens

And imagine where we'd be today if President Franklin Roosevelt had owned apartment buildings in Frankfurt and Berlin. You know, some of us might be speaking German.

Richard Painter

Apartment Berlin Buildings Franklin

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

Richard Painter

Buildings Having Name Potential

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time.

Richard Rogers

Across Always Been Believe

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

Richard Rogers

Buildings Cathedrals Gothic High

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world.

Richard Rogers

Architects Around Barriers Berlin

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