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"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."
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"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."
"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
"I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine."
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"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
"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."
"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
"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."
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
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