As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

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

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.

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

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.

The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.