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"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
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"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."
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"The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program."
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"I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance."
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"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."
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"Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy."
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"We have to realize we are building a movement."
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"I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed."
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"Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great."
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"I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world."
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"I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now."
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"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
Building
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
Simplicity
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
Certainty
"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."
Now
"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate."
Office
"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."
Architecture
"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."
Luxury
"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."
Advertising
"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well."
Now
"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
Luxury
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