#buildings

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #buildings #done #excluded #i

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves! ↗

— Al Lewis

#call #empty #hey #housing #i

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones. ↗

— Hugh MacDiarmid

#plenty #ruined #stones #world

The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#buildings #poetry #architecture

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

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

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

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

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. ↗

— Robert Evans

#constrain #creativity #depress #designed #exclusively