Cityscape Commentator Gifts

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'I'm sure that one wasn't there last week.'

"Of all the buildings I've designed, it's probably the most handsome."

"The woman on the fire escape who acted like it was a balcony"

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

I love the Shard

"I don't believe in you!"

“It's $195 million. Now, I know what you're thinking: 'OK, what's the catch?'”

Country farmhouse loaf / Inner city highrise loaf.

Fish-tank Skyscraper.

"Hey, I just consider myself very fortunate to be getting paid for something I'd be doing anyway."

Manhattan Cat atop the Woolworth Building

"Son, one day two hundred square feet of this city could be yours to rent."

'Welcome! You are now in Shambles!'

"Someday this will all be yours...assuming that someday you'll have enough to buy it from me."

"It's wonderful, darling. It really says Manhattan."

Manhattan Cat atop the Flatiron Building

City Centre Development - "...We've spent all the money on the model."

75 Years: The Commemorative Issues

"With great power comes great, great stress."

'It's amazing that with all the things I've done that I haven't gotten a big head.'

From Here You Can See Bugger All

"And, yet another plus, it will block out the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays from a considerable portion of the city."

"We call it, 'Green meadows' because that's what it was before we decided to build on it."

Entering Dystopia - Formerly Pleasant Hills

"Hard to believe this was all rain forest just fifteen years ago."

'It's like having our own private luxury box in the game of life.'

"Sarah, get me my own billboard right across the way. I'd like an office with a nice view."

'I see the Europeanisation of the city has begun.'

Sculptor explaining to tourist in Trafalgar Square that sculpture of pigeon is called 'Retribution - it actually doubles as a giant privy!'

"Honey, my boss moved me upstairs – way upstairs!"

"I feel like I was just a foundation yesterday."

Working Vacation.

Gambling on office building construction

Urban Expansion