Corporative Buildings Quotes

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air. ~ Helmut Jahn

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. ~ Richard Rogers

We shouldn't just look at new buildings but at existing stock building because that's an even greater problem than the new buildings being built. The renovation of existing buildings and making them green is just as important as designing new green buildings. ~ Ken Yeang

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in. ~ Mark Webber

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from. ~ Thomas Heatherwick

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to. ~ Ben Katchor

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. ~ Tadao Ando

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. ~ John Portman

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter. ~ Ben Nicholson

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves. ~ Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. ~ Frank Gehry

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. ~ Philip Johnson

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. ~ Peter Zumthor

New ideas must use old buildings ~ Jane Jacobs

Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes. ~ Fennel Hudson

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens. ~ Bernard Tschumi

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas. ~ Peter Zumthor

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

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down. ~ Kirsten Gillibrand

My buildings are more famous than me. ~ Jean Nouvel

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps. ~ Tony Hawk

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

Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings. ~ Maajid Nawaz

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey. ~ Alvar Aalto

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

I don't know what London's coming to - the higher the buildings the lower the morals. ~ Noel Coward

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. ~ Thom Mayne

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

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. ~ Heath Ledger

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings. ~ Yeardley Smith

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. ~ Stephen Gardiner

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard. ~ Megan Smith

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. ~ Arne Jacobsen

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. ~ Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. ~ Helmut Jahn

The dignity and sobriety of old public buildings, their temple facades, would be assaulted and covered over by indiscriminate modernity; that new buildings, more severely efficient, would eventually replace them. ~ Gail Jones

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings. ~ Annabelle Selldorf

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. ~ Richie Benaud

Buildings are always better than drawings and models. ~ Rafael Moneo

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings. ~ Joseph Campbell

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. ~ Minoru Yamasaki

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. ~ Bob Dylan

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in. ~ Moon Unit Zappa

I try firstly to make buildings humane. ~ Moshe Safdie

Buildings are forms of performances. ~ Rafael Vinoly

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

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

Architecture is about public space held by buildings. ~ Richard Rogers

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony. ~ Benedetta Tagliabue

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. ~ Philip Johnson

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority. ~ John T. Flynn

And exciting buildings are fine periodically. ~ Minoru Yamasaki

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings. ~ Diego Klattenhoff

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

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

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings. ~ Brad Holland

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules. ~ Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Beautiful hills occupied completely by the buildings still look comfortable, because they know that buildings will go in the future and they will be free again! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Light is what gives joy to buildings. ~ Jaquelin T. Robertson

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit. ~ Norman Foster

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars. ~ Will Oldham

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. ~ Farah Diba

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

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. ~ Julie Burchill

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings. ~ Norman Foster

Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. ~ Jill Telford

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean. ~ Ben Nicholson

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left. ~ Ban Ki-moon

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

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos. ~ Marina Warner

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings. ~ Rick Renzi

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. ~ Steven Johnson

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems. ~ Markus Zusak

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses. ~ Anselm Kiefer

The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window. ~ Bill Buford

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites. ~ Cesar Pelli

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them. ~ Charles Francis Richter

If only humans had real feathery wings to jump off from tallest buildings in order to take flights at nights. An escape vagabonding and exploring mother nature's delight! ~ Suyasha Subedi

An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there. ~ Denis Hayes

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me. ~ Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future. ~ Minoru Yamasaki

I would not venture into government buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic. ~ Steven Magee

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. ~ Alfred Jarry

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through. ~ Richard Siken

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

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. ~ Stephen Ambrose

We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations. ~ Donnie McClurkin

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think. ~ Minoru Yamasaki

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. ~ Tommy Douglas

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. ~ Tadao Ando

I think green buildings are extremely important but it's only part of the equation. A lot of people think that if I put a green building everything is going to be fine, but actually it's not just the green buildings we need, but green businesses, green governments, green economics. We have to extend the greening of buildings to our business and our lifestyles - that is the most important thing to do next. ~ Ken Yeang

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste. ~ Martin Filler

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily. ~ Minoru Yamasaki

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange. ~ Peter Zumthor

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation. ~ David Adjaye

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~ Alain Robert