Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.