Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.

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

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

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

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.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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.