I Am Equally Proud Of All Of

People Say I Design Architectural Icons. If I Design A Building And It Becomes An Icon, That's Ok.

I Am Equally Proud Of All Of My Architectural Projects. It's Always Rewarding To See An Ambitious Design Become Reality.

Two Years Ago I Focused On One Apartment To See How Many Variations You Can Come Up With In A Given Space With The Same Parameters. I Would Work On This Repeatedly For Days And You See That There Is Maybe Seven Hundred Options For One Space. This Exercise Gives You An Idea Of The Degree At Which You Can Interpret The Organization Of Space, It Is Not Infinite But It's Very Large.

I Will Always Have Two Regrets. I Don't Have A Presence In London, And I Would Have Liked To Have Done More Work In The Middle East.

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.