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I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.