Architect's Quotes
"Less is More"
Mies van der Rohe
Empire State Building
King Kong
Matt Dillion
"Something About Mary"
Peterson Automotive Building
Kohn Pederson Fox Associates
Transitional Cathedral
Shigeru Ban
The Cardboard Cathedral, formally called the Transitional Cathedral, in Christchurch, New Zealand, is the transitional pro-cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch, replacing ChristChurch Cathedral, which was significantly damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The Cardboard Cathedral was designed by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and opened in August 2013.
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral".
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Bradbury Hotel
Blade Runner
Matthew Broderick
"The Cable Guy"
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Raymond Kennedy
The Pixel Building
Decibel Architecture 2010 Australia's first carbon-neutral office building, generating all its own power and water on site.
"Architecture is about people"
Francis Kere
Casa Mila
The Passenger
Michelle Pfeiffer
"One Fine Day"
Capital Records Building
Welton Becket
18 Robinson
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates 2019
The design meets the stringent standards set by Singapore's Landscape Replacement Policy, which require that new projects include public green spaces equal to any greenery removed to construct the building.
"To fly we have to have resistance"
Maya Lin
The Dakota
Rosemary's Baby
Wesley Snipes
"Jungle Fever"
The Bradbury Building
Sumner Hunt Later embellished by George Wyman
Etsy Headquarters
Gensler
Etsy chose to locate its sustainable headquarters in this former printing press in Brooklyn in part to help promote sustainable commuting—in warmer months, 65% of employees bike to work. The roof and terraces are covered in native plants; solar power on the roof, along with an agreement to buy additional solar power offsite, powers the building with 100% renewable energy. During the renovation, many of the materials were salvaged locally, while the original industrial structure was left in place as much as possible.
"The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. it can lead to certain breakthroughs".
Rem Koolhaas
The Palace Bristol Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Keanu Reeves
"The Lake"
The Cinerama Dome
Based on R. Buckminster Fuller's geodesic design
Park Royal Hotel
WOHA
Demonstrates how they were able to not only conserve greenery in a built-up high-rise city center, but multiply it vertically in a manner that is architecturally striking, integrated and sustainable. Undergoing construction with scheduled completion in this year, the project has achieved Singapore’s Green Mark Platinum score, the nation’s highest environmental certification.