Quotes by Buildings 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 buildings river handsome long It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings. George Barr McCutcheon buildings late father fall Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter. Caroline Knapp buildings will terrorism strength Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen. Dana Goodyear buildings city light book 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 buildings architecture wind way 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 buildings you rope window Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings. Bjarke Ingels buildings through beautiful people 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 walls buildings real people Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens. Bernard Tschumi buildings everything being good I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony. Benedetta Tagliabue buildings you change believe Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence. Frei Otto buildings human only peaceful 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 buildings will good profit I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. Narciso Rodriguez buildings always architecture art I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings. Ekta Kapoor buildings old admire love Destroy and damage infrastructure, public buildings and government buildings. Do not leave them any place from which they can operate to damage Israel. We must be sure that Hamas will be spending many years in rebuilding Gaza and not in attacking Israel. Eli Yishai buildings will place government We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change. Elizabeth Diller buildings try change long 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 buildings me intellectual exercise 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 buildings talent theatre people We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements. Ma Yansong buildings try nature two Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. Ma Yansong buildings more power people «12345»