We will rebuild; buildings can be rebuilt, lives cannot be brought back from the dead. – Mariann Budde Episcopal Bishop of Washington on fire damage to St. John’s Church during unrest over killing of George Floyd by police.
My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can’t sell. – Harry Triguboff
Old San Francisco – the one so many nostalgics yearn for – had buildings that related well to each other. – Herb Caen
Japan’s humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors. – Harry Seidler
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings – that is their paradox. – Jane Smiley
Here in Barcelona, it’s the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration – not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. – Julie Burchill
I’m always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work – you can’t do that in heels or flip-flops! – Ivanka Trump
Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings. – Jay Samit
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings. – Jared Kushner
I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark. – James Turrell
The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive. – Jim Bakker
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. – Jhumpa Lahiri
Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes. – Itzhak Perlman
The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away. – Isabella Bird
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings. – I. M. Pei
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
The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses. – Anselm Kiefer
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. – Antoni Gaudi
One of the things I’ve always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings. – Annabelle Selldorf
Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces. – Alain Robert
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You’d have to be oblivious not to. – Ben Katchor
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter. – Ben Nicholson
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. – Alfred Jarry
The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rope’ is made up: no, you don’t get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window. – Bill Buford
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
Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens. – Bernard Tschumi
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. – Arthur Erickson
