(10 quotes found)
“A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.”
E. M. Forster
“I'm about four skyscrapers behind.”
Philip Johnson
“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“But the city rather than curtail the development of skyscrapers has chose to build and occupy those skyscrapers at the risk of the public health.”
Bill Moriarty
“Clearly the skyscraper is the solution to rational living in high-density populations, because it allows people to use mass transit in order to move people around.”
Carol Willis
“There is a public good in having historic and beautiful buildings downtown. It is good to have skyscrapers, but you also need some touchstones to the past to make it interesting and distinctive.”
Jennifer Emerson
“Everything downtown doesn't have to be a skyscraper.”
JoNell Thomas
“It's not like it's a skyscraper in the middle of a subdivision. They all blend together.”
Brad Korte
“I didn't believe that the level of development would be so high. They have everything there, skyscrapers, expensive cars, things of the modern world.”
Arnon Begani
“As mayor, I'll not just concentrate on the big skyscrapers of Manhattan,”
Anthony Weiner
