#construction

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#architects #best #business #chicago #construction

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#even #how #i #just #juxtaposition

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#construction #damn #fast #give #i

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#artist #back #beginning #color #construction

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#been #contributing #engaged #india #much

You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#better #breaks #capacity #complete #deconstruction

Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside. ↗

— Hanoi Hannah

#attention #because #been #even #fight

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. ↗

— William James

#any #constructions #directly #element #empiricism

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#beg #begger #begging #coin #coins

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209) ↗

— Alain de Botton

#complexity #complicated #construction #design #elegance