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In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.


Charles Francis Richter


#buildings #earthquake #every #frustrating #get

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.


Alain Robert


#danger #element #even #faces #feeling

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn’t see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.


Jon Ronson


#buildings #cadaver #humor #oppression #oppressive

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.


Ben Shahn


#anything #buildings #did #doing #i

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.


Minoru Yamasaki


#cathedral #consistent #gothic #i #important

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.


Bruce Robinson


#architecture #atheism #buildings #churches #religion

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.


Jasper Fforde


#buildings #greed #hate #humor #intolerance






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