You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

Light is what gives joy to buildings.

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.

The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the Victorian heritage of heavy labour.

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

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

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

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

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

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

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

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

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.