I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.
“I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.”
— Moshe Safdie · Centers
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I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.
“I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.”
— Moshe Safdie · Centers
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“I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.”
“I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings.”
“A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.”
“Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.”
“Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?”
“A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.”
“The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.”
“I've been quite fortunate to visit juvenile detention centers in Australia, jails in Western Australia. To be able to go out there and visit and see what it's like, you get a feeling for it.”
“While classrooms will be in use for many years to come, their value will diminish quickly as the online options become more pervasive. Many of the physical classrooms will be converted to eLearning laboratories, some to research centers. The real classroom of the future will take place inside the mind of the student, wherever they happen to be.”
“Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.”
“It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.”
“When you eat frequently, you're conditioning the satiety centers that tell you when to eat.”