I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.
So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.
Buildings are forms of performances.
I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.
Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.
And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views.
I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit their needs. I look at it very closely as a photographic thing, then enhance it.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
By law, all buildings should be white.
For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
