Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation