It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

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

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.

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

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