Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

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.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

My buildings are all on budget.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Light is what gives joy to buildings.

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

New York's buildings must be cleaner and more energy-efficient.

My buildings are more famous than me.

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.

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

Mail-in ballots are a huge source of potential voter fraud. For instance, ballots mailed to wrong addresses or large residential buildings might get intercepted.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.