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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
Hanya Yanagihara
Sad
Life
Plant
Long
First
See
Dreary
Entirely
Hawaii
Through
Cheap
Tourists
Almost
First Thing
Buildings
Concrete
Dominated
The First Thing
Apartment
Landscapes
Many
Thing
Stretch
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Harry Seidler
War
Great
Technology
Architecture
World
Made
Strides
Earthquake
Characteristics
Only
Allowing
Advanced
Advanced Technology
Tall
Buildings
Traditional
Were
Modern
After
Japanese
Infusing
Expressing
Resistant
World War
World War II
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
Harry Seidler
Best
Thought
Point
Tower
Buildings
Always
Blues
Stand
Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.
Harry Seidler
Summer
Earth
Earthquakes
Resulted
Lightweight
Well
Frequent
Buildings
Climate
Timber
Off
Japan
Warm
Ground
Raised
Resistant
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
Harry Seidler
Locally
Abundance
Days
Mostly
Prototype
Buildings
Material
Timber
Precedent
America
Available
Century
Translated
Migration
English
European
Even
Based
Early
Early Days
My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.
Harry Triguboff
Good
Stream
Will
Profit
Properties
Buildings
Sell
Very
Even
It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.
Helge Ingstad
Walls
Old
Fishermen
Assumed
Kind
Indian
Indians
Remains
Clear
Houses
Buildings
Were
Very
Site
Use
Sod
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
Helmut Jahn
People
Care
Big
Air
About
Daylight
Footprints
Like
Buildings
Fresh
Fresh Air
dont Care
American
Chinese
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
Helmut Jahn
Work
Will
Our
Pleasurable
Machine
Environment
Like
Buildings
Want
Create
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.
Henry Petroski
Myself
Me
Book
Engineer
First
Accidents
Fall
Down
Easy
Prompted
Had
Knew
Failures
Answer
Buildings
Doing
Were
Question
Friends
Did
Often
Human
Asked
Asking
Engineers
Many
Bridges
Why
Technological
Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine.
Henry Petroski
People
Car
Think
Drama
Dramatic
Machine
Draw
Find
Structure
More
Crowds
Tend
True
Failures
Like
Track
Around
Buildings
Expect
Than
Same
Any
Just
Automobile
Crashes
Which
Interesting
Races
Much
Racing
Successes
Bridges
Why
Spectacular
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
Herb Caen
Old
Other
Related
Francisco
Had
Well
Buildings
Yearn
San
San Francisco
Many
Each
Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.
Isabella Bird
Long
Distance
Moonlight
Some
Above
Prophet
River
Hours
Looked
Buildings
Passed
Leaving
Dome
Wall
Handsome
After
Centre
Tomb
Four
Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.
Itzhak Perlman
Become
Exactly
Exactly What
Architects
More
Involved
Buildings
Aware
Homes
Designing
Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So is getting people to pay a premium for buildings with your name in big, gold letters. Licensing your name is what every grifter dreams about.
Jacob Weisberg
Dreams
Business
People
Real Estate
Big
Pay
Every
Presidency
Licensing
Promote
Archetypal
About
Hotels
Name
Courses
Buildings
Real
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Getting
Gold
Estate
Golf
Golf Courses
Your
Premium
Using
Letters
I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.
James Turrell
You
Dark
Side
See
Emerges
More
Feel
Daylight
Hours
Buildings
Often
After
Aspect
The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.
Jamshyd Godrej
Government
Colleges
Adopt
Hospitals
Schools
Buildings
Courts
Very
Green
Trying
Department
Offices
Influence
Public
Large
Works
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
Jane Smiley
Death
Before
Too
Other
Other Countries
Hundreds
Completed
States
Frank
Frank Lloyd Wright
Paradox
Wright
Countries
New
Like
Look
Most
Around
Buildings
His
York
Just
New York
Famous
Lived
United
United States
Museum
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.
Jared Kushner
Business
Own
Ran
My Own
Buildings
Apartment
Buying
I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.
Jasmila Zbanic
Life
Daily
Lie
Drama
Destroyed
Only
Buildings
Blood
Human
Want
Human Beings
Ordinary
Show
Beings
Daily Life
It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.
Jason Statham
Love
People
Some People
Kind
Some
Throw
Like
Himself
Tall
Buildings
Am
Very
Wants
Them
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Law
Rules
Religious
Buildings
Am
Affirm
Republic
Public
Public Buildings
Believer
My buildings are more famous than me.
Jean Nouvel
Me
More
Buildings
Than
Famous
I don't see Republicans flipping their lids trying to burn down buildings in Ninja outfits when a Democrat, progressive, or socialist tries to speak.
Jeanine Pirro
Speak
Down
Progressive
Ninja
Tries
See
Outfits
Democrat
Buildings
Trying
Burn
Republicans
Flipping
Socialist
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.
Jenova Chen
Thought
Giant
Would
Would-Be
Some
Born
Carving
Buildings
Always
Years
Monastery
Earlier
Monk
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Safety
Trees
Saw
East
Border
Indian
Seeking
Through
Had
Over
Buildings
Fallen
Tanks
Forests
Rolling
Dusty
Refugees
Unfamiliar
Screen
Which
Pakistani
Streets
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