#buildings

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. ↗

— William John Wills

#buildings #cheaper #fair #i #last

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#better #building #buildings #contributing #easily

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#age #because #brought #buildings #chaos

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#around #because #buildings #came #contemporary

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#architecture #buildings #completely #consistent #later

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

— Minoru Yamasaki

#anywhere #build #buildings #go #restless

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

— Moon Unit Zappa

#been #buildings #city #drive #humiliated

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model? ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#besides #building #buildings #built #drawings

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#bad #bad taste #buildings #color #community

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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