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In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
Nellie McKay
Old
City
Something
Never
Develop
New
Buildings
York
New York
New York City
Use
Why
Why Not
Wasteful
The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.
Neri Oxman
Future
Relationship
Natural
Car
Design
Variation
Properties
Ecology
Take
Part
Environment
Buildings
Material
Where
Anything
Whether
Designed
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
Neri Oxman
Struggle
Architecture
Engineer
Build
Before
Tools
Drawings
Out
Exactly
Object
Advanced
Like
Contemporary
Him
Buildings
How
Ultimately
Very
Send
Form
Hegemony
Create
Used
Figuring
Technological
I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway life. What it did to me is try to fit a round peg - that's me - into a whole bunch of square buildings. I just didn't fit.
Ntozake Shange
Life
Me
Happy
Try
Peg
Broadway
Having
Never
Buildings
Go
Off
Fit
Very
Bunch
Square
Did
Intended
Just
Being
Theater
Whole
Round
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Oscar Niemeyer
You
Space
Design
More
No Reason
Almost
Because
Buildings
Concrete
Cover
Any
Reason
Basic
Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.
Peter Welch
Change
Old
National
Energy
Increasing
Our
Reliance
Security
Eat
Percent
Buildings
Climate
Foreign
Climate Change
Foreign Oil
Perpetuate
Up
America
Contribution
National Security
Oil
Which
Uses
Many
Homes
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
Peter Zumthor
Mainly
Vehicles
Ideas
Buildings
Interested
Mean
Symbols
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
Peter Zumthor
First
About
Buildings
Aesthetic
Were
Reasons
Rejected
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
Philip Johnson
Feeling
Mistakes
Worse
Seeing
Buildings
Than
Realizing
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
Philip Johnson
Best
Saved
City
Houston
Buildings
Undoubtedly
Showcase
Buildings are forms of performances.
Rafael Vinoly
Performance
Buildings
Forms
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
Health
Technology
Care
System
Out
Moral
Citizens
Would
Seduced
Health Care
Health Care System
Buildings
Covering
Truly
Fancy
Should
Basic
Start
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
Time
Style
Live
Believe
Think
Other
Fine
Totally
Between
New
Renaissance
Identities
Well
Buildings
Always
Dialogue
Been
Very
Shock
Different
Much
Next
Across
Each
Medieval
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
Work
Good
Broken
Capitalism
People
World
Old
Berlin Wall
Down
Design
Side
Though
Berlin
Architects
Economically
Global
Around
Buildings
Does
Still
Go
Lot
Up
Wall
Soviet
Soviet Union
Meant
Union
Barriers
Even
Flow
Raised
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.
Richard Rogers
Law
Building
Sit
Cities
Classical
About
Exciting
Like
Makes
Buildings
Built
Courts
Historic
Effectively
Contrast
Listed
Door
Against
Juxtaposition
Next
Next Door
Right
Florence
Medieval
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.
Richard Rogers
Time
High
High-Tech
Most
Cathedrals
Buildings
Gothic
Were
Whether
Tech
Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.
Rick Nielsen
People
Car
Some People
Design
Aircraft
Some
Picks
Buildings
Designed
I'm just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I'm just trying to be true to what I liked as a kid.
Rob Liefeld
Be True
Other
Kid
Drawing
Guy
Guys
Through
True
Over
Knocking
Liked
Buildings
Comics
Tanks
Trying
Just
Flipping
Each
As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.
Robert Hormats
Environmental
World
Smart
Safety
Own
Energy
Design
State
Local
Innovative
Our
Projects
Cities
Solutions
Seek
Clean
Clean Energy
Share
Most
Buildings
Offer
Efficient
American
Manage
Officials
Mayors
Experiences
Dynamic
Urban
Much
Transportation
Codes
Growth
In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crime got rich. Then Putin killed even more Russians when he had the FSB explode bombs in apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 to give himself the pretext to seize dictatorial powers.
Robert Zubrin
Crime
Rich
Siege
Thousands
Pretext
Give
Russians
More
Seize
Had
He
Putin
Moscow
Powers
Himself
Partners
Buildings
Got
His
Dictatorial
Died
Apartment
Explode
Then
Even
Bombs
Second
I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.
Roisin Murphy
Appreciation
Architecture
Society
Member
Postmodern
Write
Buildings
Really
Letters
Save
I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It's a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart.
Roisin Murphy
Sad
Beautiful
Birthday
Book
Architecture
Coffee
Fall
Swimming
Incredible
Bit
Has-Been
Table
Given
Obscure
Most
Because
Buildings
Built
Were
Been
Lot
Left
Camps
Soviet
Leisure
Holiday
Apart
Places
Little
Little Bit
Pools
Activities
Coffee Table
I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
Ron Ben-Israel
Birthday
Cake
Britney
Britney Spears
Elton
Elton John
Frank
Circus
Out
John
Architect
Had
Put
She
Buildings
Surprise
His
Did
Themes
Spears
Prepared
Event
Album
Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.
Sanjay Dutt
Food
Great
People
Problems
Old
Looking
Great City
Kind
City
Finding
Some
Great People
Crowds
Had
Buildings
Were
Handling
Shooting
Fun
Whole
Even
I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
Sara Blakely
Day
Business
People
Face
Long
Pantyhose
Kicked
Those
All Day
Out
Would
Rip
Something
Could
Had
Knew
Feet
Buildings
Sell
Up
Get
Wanted
Cut
Created
Card
Humbling
The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses - clear as day.
Sarah Parcak
Day
Made
Imagination
Complexes
City
Clear
Houses
Buildings
Requires
Map
Streets
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