Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Bailey

It's a big celebration but I wanted to work with the archives into the future.

It wasn't what I would like it to be. I think we were spending a lot of money. We were building an architecture that was complicated. We had fragmented information.

It was built when public architecture mattered, ... Now, it would be called wasteful spending.

It was the collection that put (the university's) special collections and archives on the map. I knew about the archives here through the work that Neal had done.

It was a work session, architects looked at the property, so they can continue doing their work back at headquarters.

It's going to come down to a process where the architects and engineers look at what will be built on the school property to decide when to expand sewer service and whether they can save the existing well new facilities are put on the property.

It's going to be the archives and it's going to be the generational copies that they never get back.

It's got a ways to go. The architects have come up with some very creative solutions to some issues. It's just a matter of working through how you get there. Sometimes change is a good thing.

It sort of looks like a place with the background filled in by buildings. And a lot of people say that it has a Dr. Seuss look to them. To me, they are just whimsical looking with colorful human archetypes that you can sort of read into them.

They're an outstanding and professional company that has experience managing resorts in both Minnesota and Iowa. They are a professional firm, have a good team of engineers and architects ready to design this facility and they have an impeccable record of operating resort parks.

Amanda Hearst

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

You start to think of buying desktop hardware as buying a PC by day and a server on a distributed computing architecture at night. It's cheaper than the next mainframe.

You're not going have a bunch of UAE citizens working the docks. They're longshoremen, vested in high-paying jobs. Most of them are Archie Bunker-kind of Americans.

This is a real life example of IBM working with clients to generate new ideas and innovative solutions that deliver business value. The project allows our researchers to utilize the global industry assets we have like the Insurance Application Architecture and Insurance Information Warehouse and further refine them for future engagements.

I personally have strong feelings about Whittier because of its architecture and the fact that Betty Friedan went there.

Scott Horowitz

If we can determine there's water somewhere, that's a big deal. That has huge impacts on what we do for our architecture for exploration in the future.

If you're not 100 per cent familiar with the territory, this can be a very good idea. An architect or a surveyor will know the industry, and be able to talk the same language as the builders. Even if it's 10 per cent of the total cost of the project, it can be money extremely well spent when it comes to securing your own peace of mind.

If you're no longer growing together, you have to part ways and go on. I think that 'death do us part' is an archaic aspect of marriage. It's not really applicable. I think about my grandparents who were married for 60-odd years, but they hated each other. That was the custom then, and I don't really think that's the healthiest approach.

In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.

In the face of implacable opposition from some of the most vocal critics in Britain, and at the grave and constant risk of personal unpopularity, you have courageously revived, defended and sustained the most humane principles of British and American architecture and town making,

Robin Day

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

Once they are able to connect the emotion with the image, an archetypal healing occurs.

Not only are they destroying architecture of note, they are destroying history.

Shinzo Abe

The Land Ministry will take thorough measures to work closely with local authorities to fully investigate the buildings handled by the architects as to whether their earthquake resistance data has been falsified or not.

Rem Koolhaas

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Emeril Lagasse

I'm gonna do it MY way! The problem with cooking is too many rules. You don't have to have perfect squares. Who cares, you know? Like we got some architect judging us at breakfast!

Al Sharpton

I'm not interested in being Archie Bunker, I'm looking forward to becoming George Bush.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

I have six children, and we live in a riverbed. If it gets really bad, we'll go to the church and see what the architect of the world has in store for us.

Information architecture and interaction design translate strategic objectives into a conceptual framework for the final user experience.

Raymond Blanc

I had the archetypal French bucolic upbringing, in a peasant village in deepest Burgundy.

Michael Graves

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.