It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn’t have to put development just...

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that – they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy.

Building human-centered organizations doesn’t imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don’t want to be nannied.

Men were created before women. … But that doesn’t prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of...

I’d like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I’d like to know how to do it.

Hasira ni Shetani. Hekima ni Mungu. Kila kitu kimo ndani yetu. Hasira imo ndani yetu. Hekima imo ndani yetu. Atomu ni matofali ya ujenzi wa kila kitu ulimwenguni likiwemo jua na miili ya wanadamu. Ndani...

There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that’s ok.