Quotes About Buildings

I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It's a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart.

The Supreme Court got it right in a 1973 case, PEARL v. Nyquist, when it said bluntly: "If the State may not erect buildings in which religious activities are to take place, it may not maintain such buildings or renovate them when they fall into disrepair.

Okay, now things got tough. In the movies, heroes always get into seemingly impenetrable buildings through a heating duct or ventilation shaft or service entrance. In real life, if someone goes through all the hassle of creating an elaborate security system, they don't have a 3 ? 3 ventilation shaft secured only by a metal grate and four screws. Unless they're really, really stupid.

Edgar found himself wondering whether her body hair was the same colour. He quickly pushed the thought away: it was foolish for a working man to think such thoughts about a noblewoman. She smiled at him and said: 'Have you walked here in this weather? Your nose looks as if it could drop off at any moment! Come with me and have some hot ale.' They entered the compound. Here, too, most people were staying indoors, though a handful of busy folk scurried from one building

Energy efficiency is a tactic for slowing the process of overshooting environmental limits, but the urgent work facing our civilization is to use the time we gain to build richer, more resilient kinds of buildings that serve the common good.

During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and streetlamp colours.

Culture is fundamentally structure and we all know what happens to buildings when they don't have structural integrity

Mr Banwell had mastered the great truth that truth itself, like buildings, can be manufactured.

She was sitting in a beach chair, facing the lit-up buildings across the water.

I'm not sure when "destruction" officially becomes a "rampage," but when that vampire started kicking down the buildings next to the police station I decided that we had a good old fashioned rampage on our hands.

It was Malraux, who guided her through the Louvre in 1961, who would order the cleaning of the buildings. When he first articulated the plan, one of his colleagues quipped: wouldn't it be cheaper to blacken the Sacré-Coeur?)

looking at the silent buildings, each one with a story to tell.

Academies can also flog off land and buildings, if the much weakened local authorities agree. Serious money can be made, management salaries are high, and hidden in all this is the long-term public subsidy in such sites.

Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

I did what every other actor did: there were agents all the way up the Charing Cross Road and up St. Martin's Lane, and I would go out each day and do the agents - walk into these buildings, along their corridors, bang on these doors and say, 'Anything today?'

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not very tall.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The town was made of cubical buildings with steep roofs, each one painted a bright primary color that through the long winters was said to be cheering.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

Back in 1910, word of the rise of the skyscraper in New York had panicked congressmen, who promptly zoned height limits for buildings in the District of Columbia, so that no private building could ever overshadow the Capitol.

mon grand-père m'a dit que si le patriotisme se mesure en portant un drapeau, alors les bâtiments gouvernementaux sont patriotiques qu'autre chose