Cameron Mackintosh Quotes

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.

Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

You don't let a historic site rot.

He is like a good prewar house solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

I've always admired the kind of guy who moves into a place and restores it. Thanks to my efforts, the guy who moves into mine will have a chance to do just that.

I specialize in early homes, and what I care about the most is renovating a home and taking it back to its original construction idea.

I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd just open the roof and gut the whole inside - totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don't reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.

It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I think London - not to sound pretentious - like New York, it's a big melting pot for all things and it's just got this energy that you can't find anywhere else.

So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

Both my father and I remodeled our homes but were quite careful about preserving the history and unique character of the community.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.