“I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.” ThinkingWantWritingHas BeensMightDifficultCareersConcernedTopography Author:Jonathan Meades
“I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents' house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.” KnowsWantChildrenWantedPastUsedHouseMapsStationsGrandparentSurveysHeadquartersSouthamptonOrdnanceGrandparents House Author:Jonathan Meades
“Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, 'Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?'” PeopleWantYearsMindBuildingConversionArchitectKnocked DownLandmarks Author:Jonathan Meades
