You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.