Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

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.

They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

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

There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.