I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.
I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.