It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

Technology is an important element in progress. See, we can always do something better. We can improve water technology, or energy efficiency. There is always progress forward using technology and that's where innovation starts.

The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.