It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

You've got to like the people you work with.