Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.