My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

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.

I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

It's our job as curators to open up Hampton Court to visitors, and to look after the buildings and collections for the future.

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings.

From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed light on the way modern Britain has developed.

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.