I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

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

Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

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.

I am but an architectural composer.