Cityscape Critic Mugs

"Sure, it will be an eyesore, but after we build a lot of them, it'll fit right in!"

Urban Expansion

"Damn the Uris brothers, damn the Tishmans, damn Zeckendorf...."

Beware: Safe Area.

'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."

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

"I don't believe in you!"

I love the Shard

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

'Welcome! You are now in Shambles!'

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

"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."

'It's not easy to get one of these - before that you have to have found a parking space!'

Manhattan Cat atop the Flatiron Building

75 Years: The Commemorative Issues

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

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

"With great power comes great, great stress."

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

Entering Dystopia - Formerly Pleasant Hills

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"We'll always hate Paris."