243 Buildings Quotes for You to Enjoy

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people. Colson Whitehead

You Change People Old Down Corporate Magnificent Hose Towers Buildings Erect Authority Port

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that. Damon Dash

Art Money Holding Buildings Might Companies

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful. David Chipperfield

Experience People Mirror Living Think Everyday Bathroom Would Window Somehow Architect Angle Point Putting Hotel Like Cheerful Shaving Sure Buildings Making Bureaucratic Being Where Little Really Help Even Right Raise

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience. David Chipperfield

Work Time Own Stage Too Our Architects Like Look Make Parts Loose Without Audience Buildings Private Trying Same Often Same Time Different Languages Hard Speaking Actor

For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001. David Rockefeller

Before Creation Community Kind Would Kinds More Various Had Alongside Schools Housing Buildings Least Nascent Years Clock Commercial Than Shops Manhattan Form Mean Lower Sept Appeared Round

Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance. Don Kardong

Creativity Whatever Speed Other Trees Mark Seconds Distance Distances Telephone Run Runners Running Objects Vary Poles Make Match Buildings Off Different Pace Length Modify Choices Your Choose Play

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure. Doug Aitken

Work You Space Medium Sides Chaotic Everything Project Solitary Out Architectural Structure More Instead Like Edited Buildings Brain Left Office Tranquil Just Being Where Different Unfolding Just One Process Room Function Right Two Pull

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians. Edward Hall

Needs Theatre People Has-Been About Lighting Talent Buildings Been Done Expert Wardrobe Incalculable Company Technicians Damage

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change. Elizabeth Diller

Change Try Long Also Make Buildings Resilient Last

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. Elizabeth Diller

Me Made Slightly Out Uncomfortable Make Exercise Buildings Were Repeat Intellectual Different Creating Pair Thesis Things

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Me People Money Trapped Living Other Enough Enough Money Slice Top Above Paris Student Bought Idea Feel Soon Like Make Houses Buildings Always Making Ham Apartments Sandwich Right

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. Ernie Pyle

Dark Dreadful Dark Shadows All-Around Shadows Lighter Masterpiece Around Buildings Were Thames Grew Formed Us Bridges Base Below

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. Felix Baumgartner

World Highest Buildings Off Base

There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story. Finn Jones

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats. Foster Friess

You Cats Result College Libraries See Generosity Cleveland Buildings Go Were Clinic Lot Any Mayo Fat

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. Frank Gehry

Me Feeling Everyone Backlash Buildings Done Movement Against Who

My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity. Frei Otto

Time Me Natural Humanity People Will Drive Whatever Natural Disasters Design Types Following Architectural New Disasters Buildings Doing Been Left Which Poor Poor People Use Help Keep

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence. Frei Otto

Humane Promote Only Buildings Human Peaceful

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. Genevieve Gorder

Pride Community Living Gathering Bad Restoring About Someone Color Through Bad Taste Instilling Over New Spots Buildings Doing Historic Taste Done Spaces Which Public Social Room Who Living Room Designing

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending. Grover Norquist

Government Fight People Taxpayer Group Lobbying Spending OK Run Thousands Thousands Of People Guy More Higher Higher Levels Powerful Most Most Powerful Buildings Nonsense Handful Commitments Them Less Groups Levels

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings. Haile Gebrselassie

Experience See New Look Buildings Up York New York Wanted

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