A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Harry Seidler

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
Alain Robert

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.
Sherwood Boehlert

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
Minoru Yamasaki

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Julia Morgan

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.
Minoru Yamasaki

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
Ernie Pyle

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
Robert Evans

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
Robert Evans

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

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Minoru Yamasaki

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.
Marcus V. Pollio

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
Helmut Jahn

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credits cards.
Louise Slaughter

Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want.
Donald Rumsfeld

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
Meg White

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.
Tony Curtis

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
Maya Lin