The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?