âA skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.â
? Mason Cooley
Skyscraper Quotes
Tall buildings have been built in almost all great civilizations of the past; pyramids in Egypt, medieval cathedrals, and fortresses, etc. The towers have been a standing image of the wealthy. The skyline acts as an icon for the city, hence, architects compete to construct the tallest skyscrapers. It attracts tourists. A demonstration of the modern-day and architectural genius. They symbolize the energy and wealth of a kingdom or country. They are used whilst thereâs a scarcity of constructing land. Often industrial homes are built with many floors which stand for the economic achievement of a nation. They can be used to reside a huge population in a small area. Rooftops may be used as gardens and space to store power with solar energy. The following quotes will remind you of the gigantic multitude of these mighty buildings called skyscrapers.
âFrom torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.â
? Gregory Maguire
âThe age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.â
? Ayn Rand
âAnd when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.â
? Charles R. Swindoll
âThe skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.â
? Roland Barthes
âBy night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.â
? Carl Sandburgâ
âBecause everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?â
? Anthony de Mello
âEverything thatâs born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but theyâre all on fire, and weâre all trapped.â
? Jonathan Safran Foer
âI am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.â
? Zaha Hadid
âIâm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.â
? Jack McBrayer
âAfter twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.â
? Cecil Beaton
âAsia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.â
? Rem Koolhaas
âIâm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much itâs changed. You go away for a month and thereâs three more skyscrapers.â
? Bryan Adams
âManhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide?open spaces of a man?made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.â
? Rem Koolhaas
âA facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.â
? E. M. Forster
âDoing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.â
? Philip Johnson
âData isnât information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.â
? Clifford Stoll
âA chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.â
? Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
âDo you have to make me feel like thereâs nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.â
? Demi Lovato
âThere is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapersâ battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rainâs tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.â
? Federico Garcia Lorca
âA skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.â
? Cass Gilbert
âThe key is to photograph your obsessions, whether thatâs old peopleâs hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because thatâs what youâve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.â
? David LaChapelle
âA skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.â
? George Gershwin
âFrom the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man ? the function of his reasoning mind.â
? Ayn Rand
âOur concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.â
? Abraham Joshua Heschel
âThe skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.â
? Malcolm Muggeridge
âThe search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ⊠At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.â
? Ada Louise Huxtable
â[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That wonât change, just as the character of the people who live here will not be altered by this tragedy.â
? Donald Trump
âThereâs a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.â
? Lisa Joy
âThe skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.â
? Roland Barthes
âI think itâs necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since thatâs how we experience it: from right next to it on the street to from across the river, as well as at all kinds of points in between. Itâs important to think of it as an element in a larger skyline, but also as an element in an immediate streetscape.â
? Paul Goldberger
Quotes on Tall Buildings
Humans are obsessed with pushing the limits and creating new records that are constantly broken one after the other. In fact, throughout history, the horizon of our city has always been determined by the strengths of the people in power. At one point, the cathedrals and the churches left their marks on the city skylines, then came the Government agencies with the parliament houses and other official complexes. And in the past few decades, commercial skyscrapers have become synonymous with the success of a nation.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is an international body, headquartered in Illinois, United States, having its own set standard of identifying and naming the tallest building based on sustainability. Itâs a non-profit organization and is often considered authority to name the official height of tall buildings. According to them, Burj Khalifa in Dubai is currently the tallest amongst all, standing with 163 floors with a total height of 2,717 ft (828 m).
Quotes on the tallest building will surely let you admire the building designs and engineering brilliance.
âIâm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much itâs changed. You go away for a month and thereâs three more skyscrapers.â
? Bryan Adams
âI want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality.â
? Elan Lee
âThe skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ⊠Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.â
? Ada Louise Huxtable
âThe skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan â a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown â has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.â
? Martin Filler
âThe skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ⊠Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.â
? Ada Louise Huxtable
âThe skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan â a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown â has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.â
? Martin Filler
âThe chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.â
? Louis Sullivan
âA man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building?â
? Chanakya
âWe built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.â
? Dejan Stojanovic
âWithout knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above each other. All the events of the past few months made sense if one realized that these brilliant and exotic creatures had learned to open the doors.â
? J.G. Ballard
âI think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints wonât apply.â
? Helmut Jahn
âA man in the skyscraper needs to feed a pigeon from his window to remember what great thing missing in his life: The touch of nature!â
? Mehmet Murat ildan
âIn the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.â
? Brendan Gill
âThere can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.â
? Martin Filler
âThe Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.â
? Jared Diamond
âRight after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think thatâs more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.â
? Paul Goldberger
âWhoâs afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just donât know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale â and ultimately it is a gamble â demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.â
â Ada Louise Huxtable
âRaising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.â
â Jim Bishop
Quotes about Buildings and Architecture
The design of office buildings, museums, airports, train stations, and apartments is not always revolutionary; in fact, most buildings are composed of these trivial themes that are essential to urban and human development. Nevertheless, an almost ubiquitous building emerges every now and then in some parts of the world, leading the common architectural practice in a new direction.
Take for instance The Apple Park, from a completely solar-panel covered roof to the ability to maintain indoor temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius through the natural outdoor air intake and exhaust, it has revolutionized the design of the companyâs headquarters.
Similarly, due to its strict building codes and architectural heritage, Paris is one of the most demanding places in the world for the successful design of modern buildings. The list is unending and words from these passionate geniuses are sure to light the flame in you to do great things too.
âGo on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground.â
? Demi Lovato
âManhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Itâs also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.â
? Norman Foster
âAs a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.â
? Robert Osborne
âThe only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.â
? Federico Garcia Lorca
âIn any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. Itâs called the moon illusion.â
? Neil deGrasse Tyson
âWith everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.â
? Greg Lynn
âIâm very optimistic about the future. Iâm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.â
? James Howard Kunstler
âI like going for walks in the western harbour, a newly-built area of Malmo where the old harbour used to be. It is surrounded by canals and waterways and the architecture is modern and innovative â the landmark Turning Torso skyscraper, designed by Santiago Calatrava, is the star of the show.â
? Sofia Helin
âBeauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.â
? Ada Louise Huxtable
âIf 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.â
? Joseph Rykwert
âThereâs the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.â
? Bobby Heenan
âThe bias among architecture critics isnât against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations â the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.â
? Paul Goldberger
âArt deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist â in this instance (the artist) Picabia â gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.â
? Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
âThe skyscraper â any building over seven stories really â will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesnât work well in an energy-starved economy.â
? James Howard Kunstler
Funny Architecture Quotes
With amazing innovation, comes greater responsibilities. And as architects too are human beings, making mistakes is only too commonplace. The best part is they know how to overcome the shortfalls and improve the quality of their work with determination. They know how to laugh at the shortcomings and enjoy the task at hand. These funny quotes will make you giggle and appreciate the efforts made by these marvels of the world.
âA doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.â
? Frank Lloyd Wright
âI think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.â
? John Keegan
âThis (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.â
? Dave Barry
âIâd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.â
? Doug Stanhope
âArchitects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair.â
? Karen Moyer
âItâs certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.â
? Casey Wilson
âNothing makes me more productive than the last minute.â
? Anonymous
âThe pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.â
? Norman Foste
âArchitects always have plans.â
? Anonymous
âAll architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.â
? GK Chesterton
âArchitecture is the art of how to waste space.â
? Philip Johnson
âNo security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.â
? Jadakiss
âEvery night I pray that clients with taste will get money and clients with money will get taste.â
â Bill Gardner
âThe details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.â
â Arthur Erickson
âArchitecture begins where engineering ends.â
â Walter Gropius
Inspirational Quotes for Architects
From the Oculus by Santiago Calatrava in New York to the Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel, these structures transcend their vertical height and redefine the ever-changing architectural world. The great architects have reconceived the architectural drawing board, time and again by their awe-inspiring imagination and handy work. These magnificent buildings are the proofs of their sky-high creativity and the determination to give wings to innovation. Read these quotes to get motivated and look through their mindâs eyes.
âThe accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You canât build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.â
? Arrigo Sacchi
âWe have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of menâs visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.â
? Gerald Stanley Lee
âA great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.â
? Joseph Straus
âNew York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village ? the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!â
? E. B. White
âIn âSwimming Pool,â all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In âLove Crime,â everything is so cold, and itâs all inside skyscrapers.â
? Ludivine Sagnier
âWaves, sky, trees, Essrog ? I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.â
? Jonathan Lethem
âI just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I donât want to see skyscrapers.â
? Andre Leon Talley
âItâs an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and thatâs success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then thatâs something we need to watch and stop.â
? Jimmi Simpson
âNot only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.â
? Santiago Calatrava
âLike the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami.â
? Virginia Postrel
âAs people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.â
? Diane Ackerman
âNew York means so much to people. If youâre inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and itâs been that way since the first skyscraper.â
? Griffin Dunne
âA skyscraper built within your own mind may never crumble.â
? Kazuki Nakashima
âThe world is a skyscraper! Donât always stay on the same floor! Go upstairs, go downstairs; visit the lives of other tenants! Visit eagles; visit mushrooms!â
? Mehmet Murat ildan
âTonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation â not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.â
? Barack Obama
Why is architecture the mother of all arts?
The interior space and the architect together create an almost dynamic experience; a harmony of openings, surfaces, shapes, articulation, textures, light, sound, and vision. No other art can use so many methods in its works. Perhaps because of this, architecture deserves the praise to be called âMother of All Arts.â
Why is architecture so important?
In essence, architecture is about creating the physical environment in which people live, but architecture is not only an environment. It is also a part of our culture; it is the expression of our self-image and appearance.
What is the role of architects?
Architects design projects for new construction, renovation, and restoration. They use their special knowledge and high-level drawing skills to make the building functional, safe, sustainable, and aesthetically pleasing.
What is the role of Color in architecture?
Colors play an important role in the perception of space in the human mind. If you use lighter tones, the room will appear larger. In this way, the color can be used to adjust the proportion of the building area. Excessive stimulation depends on the color used.
What do skyscrapers symbolize?
Skyscrapers symbolize the unity and pride of citizens, and their vertical orientation reflects their desire for the growth of the surrounding population.
What is the importance of skyscrapers?
As population density increases and technology advances, height limits are being reconceived and readdressed around the world to maximize the habitable space for commercial and residential buildings. More height will automatically transverse to more housing.
How did skyscrapers impact cities?
High-rise buildings not only make cities more accessible and architecturally more interesting, they are also more environmentally friendly than spacious buildings and promote social capital and creativity.
What are the disadvantages of skyscrapers?
The disadvantages of high-rise buildings include:
- More people live in small spaces
- The complexity of congestion avoidance.
- There are many human and social problems.
- Due to overpopulation, public utilities such as water, sanitation, and electricity are not balanced.
Are skyscrapers good for the economy?
The height of high-rise buildings is most likely to be related to the general economic conditions and real estate fundamentals. The height of the tower is also related to profit maximization. Studies proved the connection between the construction boom and the financial collapse, especially established that the construction of skyscrapers stimulated the stock market. Building the tallest skyscraper will bring a subsequent return on investment because it shows overconfidence in the nation.
How do skyscrapers not collapse?
Because of gravitational pull, building a higher vertical trajectory is always a challenge. But based on the âCheerleaders Pyramidâ theory, where the base is created with more materials to support the combined weight of the vertical layers, a building does not collapse. But the addition of more material too comes with space restraints. Thus, with the advancement of technology and higher production of iron and steel, narrower beams of metals replaced the bulky materials and allowed for sturdier bottoms than bricks with a fraction of spaces. Resulting in the tallest high-rises with stronger bottoms at fraction of spaces.
EndNote
Great architecture is always the starting point. On the one hand, it is a structure inspired by functions in the past. At the same time, it looks forward to improving its role in the world. In fact, culture develops periodically with these innovative designs. Seeing revolutionary architectural works means traveling through the not-too-distant past and entering the near future.
Buildings like Rafael Vignoli 432 Park Avenue is the tallest completed residential building in the Western Hemisphere and requires attention that has never been seen in residential buildings. This 1,396-foot-tall skyscraper is located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan and can be seen from all five boroughs, from all angles of cars, trains, and airplanes. Its silhouette dominates the New York skyline. This fact has not been ignored by the world-famous Uruguayan architects.
Then there is the 2,073-foot-tall Shanghai Tower (center) with a seemingly endless record: the tallest building in China, the second tallest globally, the tallest observation deck in the world, and the second-fastest elevator system globally designed by Gensler and completed in 2015. However, surprisingly, the list pales in comparison to the fact that the companyâs architectural design an asymmetrical shape with rounded corners-saves about $58 million in material costs compared to a traditional corner design of the same size.
These great designs are not only sustainable but also proved to be economically viable. Great building designs are the future of our world where the scarcity of space is increasing by the day. Hence, the skyscrapers are here to stay and make their presence felt in times to come.