In setting out to design the Hearst Tower, Foster said, he thought about "satis-fying the senses, the spirit of the place, the joy of an interplay of light or shadow or texture or color."
"How the light comes into the equivalent of the town square -- that is a value judgment," he said. "The light meter is going to tell you the level of light. It's not going to tell you whether the light is going to lift your spirits, whether it's going to sing."
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