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.
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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.
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.
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.
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.
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
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.
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