High-rise Quotes

The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation. (J. G. Ballard)
Even the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or, more ambiguously, recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways. Laing pondered this - sometimes he found it difficult not to believe that they were living in a future that had already taken place, and was now exhausted. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Without realizing it, [the architect] had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. View quote
Bjarke Ingels
Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse. View quote
Justin Guarini
I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise. View quote
Nate Berkus
By its very efficiency, the high-rise took over the task of maintaining the social structure that supported them all. For the first time it removed the need to repress every kind of anti-social behaviour, and left them free to explore any deviant or wayward impulses. View quote
J. G. Ballard
By the logic of the high-rise those most innocent of any offence became the most guilty. View quote
J. G. Ballard
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. View quote
Bob Dylan