If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation’s man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

At the age of 80, I’m becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

I’ve always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all.

Good design doesn’t date.

The media and the mayor of North Sydney, they all said how marvellous it was but councils changed and there was a reaction against it.

Good design doesn't date.

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.