I hope that people will wander through it. It's a spread-out downtown. It's an L.A. downtown, it's not a New York downtown.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.