Geoffrey West Quotes

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there, but it's really hard to make it into a Las Vegas version of it because it doesn't look at all like Las Vegas.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

Each city has strengths. Cities should be developed with their own individuality and characteristics.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

Good and bad make up a city.

I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.

You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.

I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me.

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

Cities are immortal.

The city of magnificent intentions.