The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
My buildings will be my legacy. . . they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!
The buildings. . . had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.
Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is a story or a hundred stories. For every light on in al of those huge city buildings there is a story. No one knows what I am about to face and no one knows my story and neither do I right then.
Buildings have been made because of man.
Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!
By law, all buildings should be white.
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.
No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.
If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.
One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.
We built tall # buildings , but we have not become any taller.
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.
Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player. A beautiful song called “Landslide. ” When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings. '
My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.