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Developers must look at integrated impacts that do not stop at the boundary lines of their properties.
-George Carl


Architecture aims at Eternity.
-Christopher Wren


Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
-Daniel Libeskind


Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
-Louis Kahn


Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
-John Portman


Architecture begins where engineering ends.
-Walter Gropius


A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
-Aristotle


Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
-Ibrahim Babangida


We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
-John Ruskin


We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
-Wangari Maathai


Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
-Frank Gehry


Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
-Robert Evans


Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
-Julia Morgan


Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
-Frank Lloyd Wright


The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.
-Ralph Erskine


We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
-Winston Churchill


When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
-Hugh Newell Jacobsen


Great Buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
-Arthur Erickson



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