Architectural Quotes

I really don`t feel my tax dollars should be involved in renovating something that belongs in the private sector. To be perfectly honest, the fact that it`s an architectural jewel doesn`t really push my buttons.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

It enables us to show a room of architectural distinction which is quite unique in England, to share the challenge of conservation that stood between the public and the finished room, and to share a room which helps us to tell our visitors more about the people and estates that supported Nostell.

Designed in 1959, the copper-clad dome is a great example of the more adventurous architectural feats of the twentieth century,

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don`t want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

I`d be very happy for an Architectural Centre put together on Virtual Lines. In terms of a Virtual Centre - I think that`s part of it.

If we are going to get the public and the specialists and politicians to come together, then the creation of Architectural Centres is vital.

It was an architectural mess.

We are looking at approximately $25,000 to $30,000 for the retrofit of the skate park itself and that`s at prevailing wage, and we are looking at an additional couple thousand dollars in architectural design fees.