A Quote by Peter Clewes

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

Peter Clewes

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Peter Clewes

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

Richard Rogers

The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.

Robert M. Pirsig

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.

Rick Renzi

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them.

Jonathan Hale

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

Walter Cronkite

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

Ma Yansong

When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

It's always tough when you're off the ice for a while when you've got to come back because you can't replicate the type of cardio that you need to play hockey and you can't really replicate skating at all. You can run as many stairs, or bike as many whatever on your spin bike as you want, but you can't replicate it at all.

Connor McDavid

We shouldn't just look at new buildings but at existing stock building because that's an even greater problem than the new buildings being built. The renovation of existing buildings and making them green is just as important as designing new green buildings.

Ken Yeang

When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.

Steve Jobs

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

Cesar Pelli

For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

Mitchell Hurwitz

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.