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There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then you have to suffer.

The Freedom Tower has a cost overrun. A significant cost overrun.

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I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.

A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.

Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It...

Valencia is a pure Mediterranean city; it is a city like Naples or Palermo, like Rome a little bit. Walking in the old town has a little bit of the flavor of the old city of Rome.

For people of the younger generation, the 21st century has started for them with a positive sign that Valencia is and will continue to be a very modern city.

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a...

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...

My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them.

I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement.

As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.

The reality is that throughout my career I've tackled projects in Spain that I'm proud of.

I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.

Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.

Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.

For the first project I did in North America, I was asked as an artist, not as an architect, to collaborate on a big development in the heart of Toronto. I was working with other artists and was in charge...

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