When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

One has to strive for a very open liberal society.

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

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

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.