"Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings."

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Source : "A Sense of Place". Interview with Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.

David Adjaye

#Important Quotes #Building Quotes #Surroundings Quotes

“Yes, it is true that there are times when you do wonder if things are worth it but usually those moments pass as soon as they have come.”
“I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I`m not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.”
“The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.”
“You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle”
“The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.”

Source : "Eiffel Tower Celebrates 125th Birthday". Interview With Jeremy Hobson, wwno.org. April 4, 2014.
“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.”
“The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.”
“In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.”

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