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.

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

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

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.