Iconic Building Quotes

[Describing the White House:] Big enough for two emperors, one Pope and the Grand Lama.

I thought of 24 Sussex Drive as the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.

My commitment is that Crown Sydney won't be just another hotel: it will be a landmark building for Sydney with a design and quality that the city deserves.

There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.

To me, it's the White House and always will be.

Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.

I could never imagine ever in my life that I'd be on the side of The Louvre.

Competing and streaming 'Fortnite' all night at the most iconic building in Chicago, a city close to my heart, is a dream come true.

Going to the roof of the Empire State Building is pretty amazing for kids.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

But I did get to see the Notre-Dame cathedral, which was really special to me. I'm completely heartbroken over the fire, but I'm really glad that they're gonna be able to salvage it.

When I show up in New York, and I look at the skyline, it's like showing up in a mountain range. My gaze goes toward the most impressive-looking climb. It's always gone to the top of the World Trade Center.

Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

Ally Pally has been amazing for me.

The Globe will become an automatic sight like the Tower of London and St. Paul's.

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.