Words matter. These are the best Skyscraper Quotes from famous people such as Sheherazade Goldsmith, James Howard Kunstler, Zaha Hadid, Griffin Dunne, Greg Lynn, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them – preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.
I’m very optimistic about the future. I’m just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
New York means so much to people. If you’re inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it’s been that way since the first skyscraper.
With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple’s development must come from within.
For ‘Avengers,’ in the Albuquerque desert, we shot New York there. And I was standing on a platform, nine feet high… and it was the rooftop of a skyscraper in New York. And it was all desert around me!
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
It’s certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.
I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won’t apply.
There’s a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.
