The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

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