After 23 years closeted at Westminster, where often all you can see out of the windows are other parliamentary buildings, I appreciate space, and I retired to Dartmoor to find it.

You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.

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.

I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.

I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

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.

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

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

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 always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

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

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.