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" When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future? "

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" In a traditional Japanese or Chinese garden, it's not only about the building or temple but about the whole setup - the structure, the landscape, the light, the plants, the water. The whole experience that makes your life there so beautiful. "

" In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste. "

" The city of the future development will be shifted from the pursuit of material civilisation to the pursuit of nature. This is what happens after human beings experience industrial civilisation at the expense of the natural environment. "

" What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture. "

" The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. "

" I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. "

" I'm trying to express nature in big cities. "

" Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. "

" Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. "

" There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky. "

" The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities. "

" We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements. "

" People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections. "

" China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization. "

" Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves. "

" In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings. "

" The world itself is already a great textbook. "

" The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture. "

" I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is as beautiful, in its own way, as the Earth was thousands of years ago. "

" I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past. "

" In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of nature. But in the West, they talk about protecting nature. That's a joke because nature doesn't care; it's humans who need to protect themselves. "

" A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional. "

" China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call them gardens on the city scale. For example, Beijing has mountains, waters, lakes, bridges, towers. It was a very poetic city. "

" If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved. "

" People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better. "

" Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape. "

" Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. "

" I don't use tools to create things, but I use them to realize things. "

" I actually feel like a very traditional architect. "