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I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not very tall.
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.
I've heard a lot about the iconic buildings and all that Dubai has to offer and can't wait to experience it for myself.
I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.
I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
I'm always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work - you can't do that in heels or flip-flops!
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
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.
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.
In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.
You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.
I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay.
Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.
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.
I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.
Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?
It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.
Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.