#buildings

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#become #buildings #get #more #our

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#culture #europe #japan #less #old

I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#enough #fell #friends #had #help

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#buildings #highest #i #jumped #off

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. ↗

— John Bolton

#better #buildings #could #government #government agencies

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#architects #association #best #building #buildings

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. ↗

— Prince Charles

#buildings #did #down #give #knocked

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. ↗

— Delia Ephron

#angeles #buildings #by the time #los #los angeles

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#california #desert #design #dream #dwellers