If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings. '
You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have.
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.
The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very. . . erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings. . . but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade. . . with stiff fingers and chilled bones. . . the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.
We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.
It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.
My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice.
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
New ideas often need old buildings.
There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them.
There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.
People have grown fond of me, like some old building.
It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B. C. , it's incredible.
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
