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I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past.
Ma Yansong
Sometimes
Past
Those
See
About
Like
Talk
Because
Buildings
Green
Any
Different
Sustainability
In The Past
Appear
People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.
Ma Yansong
People
Better
Think
Remake
True
Buildings
Demolish
Permanent
Always
China
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
Maajid Nawaz
Me
Duty
Our
Wearing
Adopt
Clear
Make
Policy
Buildings
Public
Public Buildings
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
Magnus Larsson
Architecture
Wind
Our
Way
Solid
Almost
Like
Parts
Buildings
Ready-Made
Hand
Either
Sand
Then
Us
Need
I have always been very intrigued by the outside of buildings. I can just walk down the street and be content with watching facades. I don't have to go inside.
Mark Bradford
Walk
Down
Intrigued
Inside
Outside
Content
Buildings
Always
Go
Been
Very
Just
Street
Watching
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
Mark Webber
Mother
Took
Abandoned
Over
Buildings
Sleep
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
Martin Filler
Survival
High
Worthy
Unpredictable
Variables
Buildings
Endanger
Taste
Among
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
Martin Filler
People
Architecture
Goals
Live
Stated
Postmodern
Greater
Buildings
Movement
Newly
Sensitivity
Use
Who
Designed
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.
Martin Filler
Quality
Architecture
Control
Typical
Finer
Cost
Architect
Structural
Exceeded
Uncommon
Schemes
Demand
Institutions
Budgets
Particularly
Execution
Within
Buildings
Cultural
Conditions
Commercial
Than
Norms
Depart
Them
Reasons
Many
Technological
Designs
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.
Martin Jacques
Closed
Military
Defeat
Tops
Seeking
Leading
Buildings
North
American
Hands
North Vietnam
Centre
Personnel
Vietnam
Helicopters
Vietnamese
Rescue
Suffered
Spectacular
Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life.
Matt Cartwright
Life
Health
Natural
Weather
Energy
Other
Relationships
Our
Resources
Extreme
Threatens
Federal
Globe
Access
Buildings
Grid
Public
Infrastructure
Natural Resources
Public Health
Across
Aspects
Electric
Transportation
Many
When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.
Michael Enzi
Strength
People
Nation
National
Unity
Our
Our People
Attacked
Failed
Buildings
Terrorists
Real
Were
National Unity
Just
Real Strength
Realize
Symbols
For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.
Michael Graves
Myself
Architecture
School
Made
First
Live
Furniture
Married
Had
Bought
Stuff
Buildings
Making
Very
Different
Which
Interested
Apartment
Really
Designing
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
Michael Heizer
Work
Frank
Trick
Gimmick
Some
Architectural
Instance
Like
Likes
Genuine
Buildings
His
Size
Sculptures
Thing
Imagine
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
Michael Mandelbaum
World
Value
Monumental
Monuments
City
Highly
Towers
Most
Tall
Tallest
Trade
Buildings
Were
Cultures
Center
Grandest
Noted
Certainly
Twin
Societies
World Trade
Raise
World Trade Center
No restaurant, however brilliantly situated, can give you the constantly changing views that you can see from a railway. Revolving restaurants at the tops of tall buildings try to compete, but spinning around is no substitute for speeding along.
Michael Portillo
You
Try
Changing
Speeding
Tops
Restaurant
Restaurants
Constantly
See
Spinning
Give
Along
Tall
Around
Buildings
However
Situated
Revolving
Substitute
Views
Railway
Brilliantly
Compete
From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed light on the way modern Britain has developed.
Michael Portillo
Light
Way
Ways
Some
Structures
Remarkable
Developed
Shed
Buildings
Modern
Different
Explored
Helped
Different Ways
Brighton
Britain
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture
Build
Restless
Terribly
Buildings
Go
Which
Anywhere
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Minoru Yamasaki
Quality
Important
Consistent
Instance
Like
Know
Cathedral
Buildings
Gothic
Very
Should
Now
And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
Minoru Yamasaki
Fine
Exciting
Buildings
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
Moshe Safdie
Future
Past
Adapting
About
Take
Blend
Look
Buildings
Always
Been
Trying
Want
Root
I try firstly to make buildings humane.
Moshe Safdie
Try
Humane
Make
Buildings
Firstly
I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings.
Moshe Safdie
World
Opportunity
Style
Think
Signature
Architects
Seized
Buildings
Go
Anywhere
Produce
Meaningless
Star
In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.
Mr. T
School
Build
Way
Machine
High
High School
About
Had
Masonry
Stuff
Know
Around
Buildings
Shop
Graduated
Wood
Wanted
Brick
Lebanon is not only burning buildings and people crying in the street. When you say 'Lebanon,' especially to foreigners, that's the first thing they think of.
Nadine Labaki
You
People
First
Think
Say
Only
Crying
First Thing
Buildings
Lebanon
Foreigners
The First Thing
Burning
Street
Thing
I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You
People
Space
Sky
Thought
First
Looking
Living
Kid
Out
City
See
Windows
Picking
Look
Because
Buildings
Go
Up
Just
Literally
Transformed
Far
Really
Your
Hard
Figuratively
Pair
Binoculars
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