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" What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. "

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" People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. "

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

" Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true. "

" My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that. "

" Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. "

" I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else. "

" When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. "

" I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. "

" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

" Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places. "

" I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. "

" Would they call me a diva if I were a guy? "

" It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future. "

" I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. "

" People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them. "

" When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. "

" I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong. "

" My generation were all careerists. "

" I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven. "

" I really believe in the idea of the future. "

" I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. "

" I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place. "

" I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.' "

" What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. "

" Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard. "

" Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. "

" The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice. "

" I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid. "

" For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. "