High-Rise Buildings Quotes

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

New York City is as much on the perpendicular as on the horizontal plane …. Americans have practically added a new dimension to space. When they find themselves a little crowded, they simply tilt a street on end and call it a skyscraper …. Aerial suburbs …. Mansions in the sky.

In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China.

In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.

I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?

Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left.

The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

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!

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.

I grew up in Mumbai.

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.

I had always thought that Gurgaon was some village, it was only when I came here that I realized that it is nothing less than a world-class city.

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.

I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.

Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.