Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.

I didn't want to lose the human scale.

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.