Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

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

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

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

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.