We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it on the street to from across the river, as well as at all kinds of points in between. It's important to think of it as an element in a larger skyline, but also as an element in an immediate streetscape.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.