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Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

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We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.

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It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

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Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

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I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

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Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

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Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

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Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

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The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

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Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Architect

Born: November 17th, 1944

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