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"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
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"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
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"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."
"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
"The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox."
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate."
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