If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.