Buildings Quotes
Lines on the structures that shape a skyline.
This collection of buildings quotes covers cost and value in design, alongside the idea of using flat roofs to bring nature back into dense towns. Explore more under Architecture.
One of the small joys that's easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to commemorate the famous on the houses they lived in.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back...
The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.
Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.
Architecture Quotes
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.
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.
For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new houses of worship came to dominate the landscape. Yankee Stadium is the most storied of these contemporary shrines.
I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.
City Quotes
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his...
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.
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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...
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Other entries look at the recurring configurations across a designer's body of work and older guidance on lighting a home properly. Pair with our City quotes for more on urban life.
