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Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

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

I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I never wanted to be a rapper. I want to be in the movies. I want to own buildings.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

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

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

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

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

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

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

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

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

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

There is a sense of civic connection to the city when you light up iconic buildings or sites.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

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

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

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

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

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

I always felt uncomfortable with real estate because buildings don't move, and neighborhoods change.

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

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

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.

With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I'm flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever.

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

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

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

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

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

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

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

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

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

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