Famous Quotes & Sayings

For instance, we need to consider the size of other buildings such as the auditorium, the library and the stadium in the long-range plans, too.

It's one of those buildings that, man, if the walls could talk

They have stealthily come into the market and monopolized the better buildings downtown under their ownership. Consider there are only nine or 10 Class A buildings downtown. They own six of them.

It was so strong that I saw buildings swaying. It was terrifying.

Peter Zumthor

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

Whether working with current buildings or constructing new, the energy strategies have converted to dollars saved, resources saved, and pollutants never produced.

With this, you can see the sides of the buildings instead of just an aerial view.

We did sustain damage. The good news is no one is hurt and the buildings are still there, as close to the eye of the hurricane as they were.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

Leon Krier

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Bjarke Ingels

In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.

We don't have any new figures, but we are concerned that the aftershocks may have cause more structural damage to buildings in the town.

This would be the first example of a stadium being developed from the outset for two N.F.L. teams, ... The cost of these buildings has skyrocketed to such a degree that it makes far more economic sense to share the debt service and the revenues. The net revenues for the two teams are likely to be significantly better than if they each built their own stadium.

We have a lot of buildings in our downtown that could be on the National Historic Register if we wanted them to be.

We can't keep cutting maintenance of our buildings and still have programs. Things that they love have to go if they don't want to give us money.

We don't know (how much power they'll generate), because it's a test, these are the first of their kind in the world. If it works we'll expand it ... to as many buildings as we can.

We don't know how many more faulty buildings are out there. The problem could be even more widespread than just one architect.

We need to stay away not only from single-use, but also single-tenant buildings so we stay away from one big tenant like Big Bear.

We own our buildings and the land they sit on which allows us to control our property costs. We also like to build from scratch whenever we can using construction crews from that community.

Butler's multiple buildings make it flexible for accommodating several different types and sizes of tenants. Butler has lots of room for expansion and is served by rail.

Why do we call them buildings when they're finished? Shouldn't they be called Builts?

We who create buildings and we who live in buildings have a tremendous effect on our environment, ... If we focus on how to make changes, we can have a tremendous effect on our world.