All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.