#buildings

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#21st century #awareness #buildings #century #civic

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. ↗

— John Malkovich

#buildings #design #mason #mean #you

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings. ↗

— George Barr McCutcheon

#bright #buildings #cable #chicago #clear

If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#another man #around #buildings #designed #facade

And exciting buildings are fine periodically. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#exciting #fine #periodically

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#architect #birthday #britney #britney spears #buildings

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change. ↗

— Peter Welch

#buildings #change #climate #climate change #contribution

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. ↗

— Meg White

#buildings #city #detroit #downtown #more

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

#american #attackers #buildings #cause #collapse