There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.
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If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.
I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.
Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.