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.

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.

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

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.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

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