I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.