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One great building does not make a great city. -- Thomas Heatherwick
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world. -- Meg White
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. -- Philip Johnson
I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets. -- Dario Argento
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. -- Helmut Jahn
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. -- Stephen Gardiner
I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in. -- Moon Unit Zappa
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. -- Richard Meier
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue. -- Kate Baldwin
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens. -- Cesar Pelli
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? -- Nellie McKay
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city. -- Rem Koolhaas
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. -- Julie Burchill
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. -- Bjarke Ingels
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway. -- Minoru Yamasaki
I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city. -- Joseph Rykwert
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental. -- Michael Mandelbaum
Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting. -- Richard Rogers
I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me. -- Michael Redhill
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. -- Jane Jacobs
Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very glad that it's happening. -- A-Trak
The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together. -- John Arbuthnot
China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming. -- Frank Gehry
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. -- Aristophanes
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in. -- Philip Johnson

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