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.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

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.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

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

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate