I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.

There's this misconception globally that the platform is about property groups and big property owners renting out entire buildings full-time.

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.

In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

Since the theater is going to be reconstructed in the techniques of joinery craftsmanship as it was before, it will take longer to make. It will be a complex of buildings, not just the Globe, with a major permanent exhibition of the Elizabethan theater.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

I renovate homes and buildings and residences in Detroit.

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.'

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.