The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
They build too low who build beneath the skies.
I'm a bad customer for my own buildings! If I'm choosing an apartment, I choose one about five or six stories high so that I can see the people, the trees, and the world on the street. Beyond that, I lose contact with the ground!
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.
In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
The newspapers were against me. They were telling me that the Australian dream was a home. But that dream became worse and worse as they had to live further away from the city. My dream became better as we could build higher and higher.
Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
The higher the building the lower the morals.
Looking at the town of Misr from a distance, one has the impression of a mountain. There are houses fourteen stories high, while others are limited to seven.
The houses have five, six, or even seven stories, and as many as 200 people may live in a building.
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.
