“I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to des...” — Renzo Piano Quote

I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.