Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.