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

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

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

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

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.