#buildings

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. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

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We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

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I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

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I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. ↗

— Dick Wolf

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I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

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My buildings are all on budget. ↗

— Frank Gehry

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Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century; look at the light through that surprising host of steeples, towers, and belfries; pour forth amid the immense city, break against the points of its islands, compress within the arches of the bridges, the current of the Seine, with its large patches of green and yellow, more changeable than a serpent's skin; define clearly the Gothic profile of this old Paris upon an horizon of azure, make its contour float in a wintry fog which clings to its innumerable chimneys; drown it in deep night, and observe the extraordinary play of darkness and light in this sombre labyrinth of buildings; throw into it a ray of moonlight, which shall show its faint outline and cause the huge heads of the towers to stand forth from amid the mist; or revert to that dark picture, touch up with shade the thousand acute angles of the spires and gables, and make them stand out, more jagged than a shark's jaw, upon the copper-coloured sky of evening. Now compare the two. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

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It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth. ↗

— Nanette Lepore

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Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. ↗

— Julia Morgan

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