There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.