Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

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

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.