Sublime

The space should feel calm and inviting.… Before we opened this, I visited a lot of university centres for imagination and labs and that kind of thing, and a lot of people go for this all-white, sleek futuristic feel. It’s all plastic and steel, and I think something really different happens when people are surrounded by natural materials like ston

if there is one element that recurs and stands out for cities, it is the making and using of vertical options.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

‘Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, instructors should prepare maps of Dublin with Bloom’s and Stephen’s intertwining itineraries clearly traced.’

If you accomplish everything on today’s clear-goals list, this means you’re one step closer to your high, hard goals, which means you’re on mission, which means your intrinsic drivers are doing their job. Cross an item off that list, get a little dopamine; cross another item off, get a little more dopamine. One little win at a time, that’s how this

Designers imagine things that don’t yet exist, and then they build them, and then the world changes.