We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call 'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.
I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.
It's always nice to be in England - I love it here.
The fact is that I loved being in England.
The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.
My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.
I've got to be honest, and I'm not just saying this because the majority of you reading this live there, but I love the United Kingdom. I just flat-out love it.
