Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

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.

Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.

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