31 Quotes About Building

The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. Thomas Hardy

Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real.. There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is. . Leonardo Donofrio

We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us Lois Farfel Stark

Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhereis felt everywhere. Lois Farfel Stark

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building. John Ruskin

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed. Munia Khan

Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society. I.M. Pei

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller. Dejan Stojanovic

Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams. Israelmore Ayivor

The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought Dan Brown

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger. Willa Cather

I don't know what London's coming to – the higher the buildings the lower the morals. Unknown

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange. Bruce Robinson

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory. Fidelis O. Mkparu

It was the kind of building that remembered things, deep-down things, things that rode tears into the world, telling them back to anyone old enough or wise enough to know how to listen with their eyes. Charles M. Blow

It was——how shall I put it?——a painfully solitary building. Let me explain. Say we have a concept. It goes without saying that there will be slight exceptions to that norm. Now, over time these exceptions spread like stains until finally they form a separate concept. To which other exceptions crop up. It was that kind of building, some ancient life form that had evolved blindly, toward who knows what end. . Haruki Murakami

I am a fading phantasmagoria. Time has left me in partial glory."-- Fidelis O Mkparu Fidelis O. Mkparu

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight. Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors! . Tom Wolfe

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn’t see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald. . Jon Ronson

Let's do it right. This is for the ages. I.M. Pei

Architecture is about public space held by buildings. Richard Rogers

My buildings are more famous than me. Jean Nouvel

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. John Portman

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. John Ruskin

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid. Aldis Hodge

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. Narciso Rodriguez

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Alexander Jackson Davis

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too. John Bolton