There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.
We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.
I love my apartment in New York.
When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.
Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
I lived in a basement duplex on 96th Street on the Upper West Side.
I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.
For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.
I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.
I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.
The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.
I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.
