First I don't want to.

Do is.

Just a really really.

Great nice warm person who also
happen to be really smart but

I was quirky but
I really I have a big fan of so

I always will be and the other thing
that I was really grateful for

was his company because.

When we were students always
started in landscape architecture.

The cities were not really on the map and
some we are but.

In terms of the professional
landscape architecture and

its fundamental base is suburbia that's
where everybody got their jobs and

people here living in cities for
it looks terrible but those.

Guys.

Always lots are great but I also.

Very devoted to working in cities
my practice is urban I love cities.

For all sorts of reasons but

there was somebody else out there who
you know was kind of crazy by this idea

that cities were the places that we should
focus on we should learn how to made

you know how to live with me make them so
that we could live in them.

And so.

This my colleague and that he was
somebody who really was on the ball

way way too early and you guys a really
have been very lucky to have him then pull

us you want to say this is something I've
just learned because I'm trying to get my

daughter bought mitts that which is.

All almost impossible because.

I don't know how to do it myself.

You know it's like going on a limb but
we're we're doing this.

Her part that she has to learn
the Torah involves the death of

Sarah OK Abrahams What if the you
like reading the Old Testament but.

And the reason that the surge is kind of
came into my mind right now is that starts

out dying at the age of one
hundred plus twenty plus but

it sounded so quick and I have a one
hundred twenty seven year old and

what the rabbi was saying is that OK and
he doesn't believe that for a moment she

did not she was not one hundred on
the seven but in those days that use

measure of a person's life time
by how long their memories.

Lasted and
the lives of others who think touch and

that's the measure of their life time so
I mean that's before you know

the Internet the dog's life would be read
as somebody who lived a thousand years old

you know I mean there's a long
long lifetime of that will

keep on growing as measured by that you.

Only get around a long time so that five
thousand seven hundred years whatever

black I mean that I think that
struck me is actually one

piece of information from the Bible
that made a lot of sense.

Anyway.

Miss them I was shocked and
this will still be one.

Or the other thing but
the phone chooses that.

I don't know how I'm doing I'm
just learning to someone really.

Life must go on.

That's a rule life must go on.

So I'll give it a go.

Let's see.

The book.

And.

That's it.

Her there OK.

I was going to give a lecture I'm not
going to give a lecture because I realize

you know it's about eleven or phone calls
for me so I can make it easy on myself and

not try to make any sense but
the pictures.

You can take that everyone from.

What I first thought was
the work I'm going to show you

at least except the very first you.

Are.

Work of a group of people over.

Thirty years.

And.

I'm like a vampire.

I love ideas I'm an idea junkie I
love five years or five I love to go

see art because I'm thrilled by ideas that
people who are involved in the visual

realm come up with and invent So
you know that's why Harvey and so

we've been looking at art my husband's
hobby so and that's where these ideas

come from their life in resurgence of the
visual roam around to artists because they

go through ideas very quickly
you don't get paid a lot but.

For the Genesis you know there are several
and terms of what then happens in

the design world so it's always nice to
know with what's coming up on your butt.

So the people can.

Contribute tremendously and
my house my job really is to figure out

because we all contribute what
we start working we kind of do.

Also watch or read everybody contributes
ideas and kind of we argue for them we.

Get little secrets and
we know we talk about the ones that seem

really most interesting and ultimately
Ok I decide but you know is that

we all look at it again and we try to
figure out how to make these ideas work.

I thought I would do and

of a little poster kind of shows
how I planned my life I'm not.

Really good at planning very
much actually you know.

Is in the city but so
I started off basically a three this is.

Where we have a I have my first office
was involved in the software project

having.

The New York.

New York to San Francisco.

And San Francisco.

Out there because they're back to.

The.

London plan and just kind of happen
that way and kind of go back and

forth I'm still teaching so
I can do this quite a bit.

Or people.

Are.

Really thinking about combat so.

We have about.

Twenty five people or so.

We try to keep like small and so that.

We don't have to take everything with
a big machine where we just have to keep

feeding the engine and we can have a
little bit of this question about whether

it's a good match for people to work
with us I'm very clear that we do

work somebody that we want to
get something out of it so

not exactly the sort of risk but you know.

Fortunately there are some out there who.

Will support him and
like what we do know but

I thought I should add this is why I
change the lecture I will go back in time

in the depths of time way back to
dinosaurs where I started out.

After having graduated from Bradford some
landscape and one landscape architect and

I feel as if architects I haven't really
heard about the profession because

everybody in my family is an architect and
we all know you don't need less

You've arctics do anything so I never
even had heard about the profession but

I went into it because I was
the earthworks artist and

I decided one more how to build big are so
big and if I went it would teach me that.

Before I start.

Thinking.

How many of you are students.

You know allowed to sit over here in.

How many architects in architecture.

How many of you guys
are an architect are very.

Good anybody doing anything else.

Urban Design kind of is a switch
between the all of the OK.

My background's of Fine Arts.

For want to be an artist from want to get
architecture school was the most boring

profession in the world I have gotten
a job a real job and I'm at it.

And so I was so bored I decided I
was that and come back home and

do this insulation I was right to be
walked at the time we had an article you

about our front garden in sort
of a townhouse in Boston so

I went from to go on a business trip and
I took matters into my own and

I gave myself a budget of a novel
only of one hundred dollars so

the task was to redo the front garden so
when he came back he would be able to

enjoy this on a stick and
the rule was I could only buy stuff

by going around the block but I could
find a block I could buy so there was a.

Or you know where and by color brought
out of there was a don't like a big old.

Country and install the big old one
he got back from a business trip by

my classmates over
getting our more of work.

And basically a professional
photographer who took these images.

We have only in one party which meant we
were just drunks standing on the sidewalk.

He came home and he looked at it.

Right and it was not amused at all.

But what happened is that I
don't took this photograph and

I have a friend who was writing for
The New York magazine.

The editor of the it was great clay and
greedy for

what ever the system which I keep
asking why did you do it but

he put it on the cover of the landscape
architect for the Navy and

he asked me to write an article about why
does the so I'm going to work on something

you know because of the.

Appropriateness was a big issue that was
really important to be appropriate for a.

Good materials and craftsmanship
because after all we had to appear and

so we were solid citizens to whom the
architects of the ones that would never

hire US has everybody you know
it's a market I said just failed

architecture guys happened in the past.

So I remember the medical saying hey great
it's cheap that some of crack anybody can

do it.

Well that.

Was a great of all you know the great
it's there for the art appropriately.

So this really has softened
a lot of people here truly and

the next article which is a section
called couple felt I mean if you.

Read the story might get one letter but.

It just kind of the bait was huge.

Gravy but he lost his job people.

Cut their subscription to the magazine.

And some were like this
is disgusting on them for

hours to be involved
with the harbor he said.

I wasn't for all of them fortunately I
mean you know it's like you know it's just

it's just you know making a joke of
the profession but then with the course

the other side were like this is great you
know I like this it's kind of funny and

my point was I mean I'm with
this is a disaster in Saudi

insolation are I mean at this time
Christopher was crucified and

some of the Volkswagen.

Because it was asked to bring on the
stairs of people walked up and down and

I mean that was in our world and
the landscape this the Hmong.

Community whole question of all with
some weaving to pass along I was like

this is cool and this is a profession for
me they're completely asleep at

the wheel which is true
that's really true so anyway.

I just kept doing these and these
installations I'm not going to go until

like I did but this was for a God this is
actually where I learned my lesson about

that stick of the white Institute and
MIT where David Baltimore

he was the director they had just
built this brand new building and.

The spouse and
some of you love gardens and nature but.

It had not been provided for here there's
no place to put soil there's no water

there was no but yes there was no me there
was no nothing but of course a baker so

I thought OK we're going to just make it
rain because everybody thinks Farina this

is great we're going to pay to
great gravel steel covered.

Astroturf there is nothing living in fear
of the fact you need water you need solar

or you need support you need the money
I mean it's like having a kid but

if you're not going to actually pony up.

Put money down to make a living from the
city you can that's the real target for

that but you can use paper NASA term but
the the story is actually it was a genetic

engineering firm and it was about splicing
one culture and the other so this is

a Japanese Zen garden that's placed sounds
of the French Renaissance garden and

only the teachers of the set up here are
kind of gave into this and garden hopes of

understanding they could be making
terrible mistakes and then after Mary.

We were asked to do some more
which will seem us long for

the Miami airport so
you know I served up by just doing my

own installations I was highly
unprofessional people told me.

When we got to choose our own sites and
this was.

A plantation house and those were
the fields where the slaves were to gather

cotton so this is actually a tribute to
the slaves but actually to the bottom of

the bottom where the women
who actually you know.

Did all the laundry and
did although you know they were really.

At the of the bottom of the whole heap but
and also what is the traditional culture

of death for Africans So this is all that
these cotton sheets were hung out and

connected the slave quarters to
the fields but you know what we mustn't

one of the things they're all electrified
the people who look at living in them.

It's very strange but it was all
about receiving the site again and

touching the the corners out of the field.

Because this insulation in Germany this
is the work value they have a moron.

This program spent billions of
dollars in generating their industrial

fields which were the most
polluted areas in Europe.

So they had people like room and

other artists the first richest Sara and
also the people coming in and

doing insulation or we did a temporary
insulation on this mountain here which was

actually only hope that was a real home
not made out of the dust and rubble and

on top of this kind of we're cops
of trees it was kind of spooky

though a statue of this Mark Alyse
actual He was he ever pulled

together the Germany as a nation but it
was an intersection of political power and

these problems which are which of
the traverse the countryside so

called power and so it was
an intersection of political power and

the energy that was actually
sucked out of this the land and so

we created this kind of black circle
right at that intersection and

everything was made we have to.

Support this insulation by growing
things and having them Armistead And

so in the marketplace so
we could build this was.

Basically an instruction
given from a farmer so.

The whole wedding which is love with blood
rent the color of power what goes up to

the statue and then this kind of
black circle of death was here and

the corn created these kind of almost
reverberations of the power lines but

the deal was these this hallway led off
and was only space enough for one person

so if somebody is walking towards you
somebody has in the side who has the power

who have to get out of the hallway and who
have to let the other person go back so

it was it was kind of about this
sort of negotiation of power.

OK.

Rio.

I almost.

Got off the website I forgot to put it in.

And this is really early in my career and
goal and I have

flown down to Miami to meet Bernardo for
pressure for marketing coming up so

that they were doing a lot of cool
work like the Atlantis building and

Miami boy some of the stuff but so
he's the architects are the architects and

you know was kind of on the outer fringe.

It was kind of the shopping center of you
know the very small shopping center but

the developer Ackerman from Chicago at
least decided to put the parking out back

in the second ring the parking around the
hole and so that was a step forward and

then when it was Rio
shopping center after water.

By the time it came to the water
he had run out of money and

we were left with this kind of blank
pool of water about two feet deep.

And one day I just I ran
around the room of Atlanta and

we found a garden shop that has
three hundred fifty of these and

great frogs explaining like that
water in itself that interesting and

stop anything that happened in
the area to make it move so we decided

to just put these frogs in there some last
ditch effort to save this project and

then because I want to be
planted in concert but

that was against the law and
it was to come.

I mean nobody would give me any money or
you know that was I just.

Nobody spending money and probably
true here looking million places or

different by yeah poor have
made things out of junk so if.

You know Robert Listen son can do that in.

Russia Bergen all the artists.

Maybe there are other trash pull
things out of the trash and

composed it and made it valuable and
we use landscape architects and do that so

just of having a good budget is no excuse
for not doing interesting work and

even if this was the last you know five
days I feel that it has content and.

Intellectual or motive power and
existence as opposed to being

kind of bland in the Sarah forever so we
kind of gave it our all and we knew this

wasn't going to last long because the real
problem was the real thing up the hill but

this server to that particular area and

yes there was an initiation kind
of thing that went on where.

The guys were supposed to go out and
pull these frogs you know and they didn't

really succeed a whole lot I have to
say they were in a pretty good OK so.

Few years later on and I'm also starting
I'm going from the state some kind of go.

Across the globe leaving.

East so this is Philadelphia which is
actually north from here but it's still in

the U.S. It's one hundred acres it's
basically in a state that is owned by.

One guy who wanted to train his dogs.

This wasn't one of these things where
there was no money obviously it's

a tradeoff but he but we were doing is
we started with we're claiming this area

here which was a classic or is it true
that there are eleven thousand of them and

then to open up the Pine Barrens
to great fields for

agriculture and also a place for him to
hang out with those are his friends but

we've actually worked on a couple
of mining from a distance and

like my favorite but this is actually
after we've cleaned up this claim for

and with was of the look water it
was you know the rubble of love and

cars tires battery us and their bodies and
there are many people do.

Drugs It was a real toxic siphon
every sense of the word and

what we did is we work with.

College just.

So that when we took the trees we would
mix the clay with the chickens of

the would like mix and
we had on site and put it back down so

we were hoping that that would help to
regenerate the soil one you're already

came up with this is what it looks like
now which is a wonderful Conservancy for

birds of the great bird walking
places from what I have but

you know there are these kind of
these are cut through the forests and

different farmer's fields
that are tough to swallow.

So.

Now we bought girth to be full
of these and Watson's and.

It's kind of strange because he's
hired one guy on just going and

trim these all gumdrops all over
the place which I rather like a lot

those kind of looks like one
note kind of ran through.

You know almost never something of
a crash coming these slots of space in

the woods and picking out trees
you know really kind of creating

the space out of what this is let's
look at shaving problem where you're.

Shaving pieces.

This is the gateway for perspective.

And this is this is where the parties
were going with the machinery and

you know maintenance.

OK You know actually
one of the basin is so.

Well because.

The little matter whether it's.

Privately or publicly become kind of the
public space whether it's even a private

residence but we have only two private
residences and I live all over here.

Most of these are public spaces and
I love public spaces because

you can affect more people's lives in
the city I don't like you said I really

started off with the direction of the I
don't want to make art make things but

now in my old age I can I have a context
for why that actually matters but

I didn't have a purse anyway so
this is a York apartment and trauma and

there are some of these little
Victorian houses around so

we made a series of two station to

Burma London subway and so
can have a lot of weight but

we wanted to make sure that the scale of
these there were slices of the eco time

pope's new hero and then we kind of made
him and like the ship with these different

ecologies But the nice thing about this.

Has really created a sort of a never
mind all the shops around and

both of them turns out that if you give
places people said Double X. and five or

so I usually give a lecture about why
landscape matters economically of course

environmentally socially and
culturally which it absolutely does but

that's another lecture to showing
pictures and so on this is a center for

the Performing Arts in Arizona.

We did the Sapporo architects out of
Portland and it's interesting because this

is a city that's very close to Phoenix
the streets are one hundred feet water and

the reason is because you can make a U.
turn with a team of oxen.

Through from but
the cities are huge the block

to six hundred feet by six hundred
feet and you can see that you know.

That's taken a parking but they wanted
to track people back to the city so

the use of the course of
a cultural venue but then and by.

Every public space turns out
to be very very fundamental to

recruiting a good man to go back
in the city some Millennium Park

in Chicago has tons of information
about this as I do I collect to show

how much economic uplift you
can gain by creating vibrant

public spaces because people want to want
to go that one spends on the other one

of them have an office and they want
to live on these things and so these

become very very important but the most
important thing is that they're fun for

people I mean I'm I think that's important
that people want to play when have fun and

want interact and he want time to create
an environment where they can explore in

their own ways so the fact people
are moving and it's a fun many so.

This is the no arms legs and
we did years later with Pam Parkinson

one summer as an architect of
course in the beginning and for

the Icelandic Museum of of our
contemporary art and it's a protest about

the fact that they are selling out to
small very low prices because they

have geothermal energy the meantime her
screwing up the environment the landscape

which is a critically fragile something
grows there someone screwed up and

so you screw up it's like
here with this grow so

this is our insulation This
is a really sweet little.

Seventies contemporary
you know architecture and

this is our insulation which was like that
you know with a very kind of black rough

outside and a crystal inside so
that's our piece.

But inside of it is Crystal and
sucker that is not so very long and.

You can only get to see it by coming
you know getting through the museum and

crawling through the box and then there
are windows that allow you to see into

the Inside this is us making it with
these kind of slots and spaces.

Windows allow you to see it but
the windows are designed such that you

can never really be a whole the whole
space at all so it's a serious here's me

this is good we only had like three
days to do it at the sun never sets so

I'm home and
we actually ran out of aluminum so

we actually have goes shopping
to grocery store for.

A while by the nose happily but

we have to finish up I didn't like wait to
see what happens when you're inside there

are these slots other kind of these
windows allow you to see in for.

The whole idea is that when you go
into this darkened box your eyes

dilated and when you go see into
the center it's like your eyes

are looking into a frying pan and
they get fried by the mountain fans and

you're like this for
them kind of gives off but

you don't want people.

So you know it's like all
that glitters is not gold so

it was a cautionary tale we call but there
are these kind of very crisp people was

very nice people said yes looks like
Iceland clarity of mind the Christmas and

the crystal ball it was very very or
burning on and off.

A little movie came up to me
like this is a very beautiful.

Or.

Look it's there and.

Maybe.

It's been completely overcommercialized
and it's a real dog I mean this

is really a shame because you know
she can put on the world map and

that's what everybody here I think you
know everybody has a competition now

in the world for knowledge based work and
that's what's happening out there.

So the idea of bringing people who
are all of British workers is a very very

fundamental over the desire in order
to make sure that your city has

a future has an economic base
you feel it's not so in Burma So

Chicago is the site of the third one I
would actually track people to come in.

This competition so
we decided is that we work with us

on this is that to keep the pier the way
it is we were told we couldn't touch

the wonderful commercialized part of it
except for regions of amusement park so

we straighten out things we kind of
took out this kind of you know classical

Roman Valmy applause and eco garden but
we've decided that we're going to

create a series of wooden kind of
platforms could park along the edge

like the boats and what's really
happening which is so interesting as out.

Here is our own very well so no.

Actually it makes of the course
the spine which needed to be fixed so

now we decide there's going to be
a floating park and because people are now

cleaning up the water you can occupy
space and never was able to live but

you know this market where we could
create this thing as time went on and

the city could raise money for
it as you know but piece by piece.

So we connected the upper level of
the recent park down to the water.

And then this was kind of
the performance here this is the place

here this is the heart of your.

So and
then you can get down in the water and

then this was a fountain which
sucked the water up the lake but

you could actually the kids could
play in the water out here.

And in our insulation and
confirmation here.

In the winter have of my skin when.

I work with David Mark
to do the London Eye.

The idea was again I think this is
probably the only people on the go forward

which are.

A master plan for health and Castle
might never have got to the point where

we're really good strategic thinking and
and really advocating for open space and

large and sorting out.

But we have this planned canvas
little park that was a temporary park

because of development around it has not
really been determined to work with.

Us.

It's a playground that we did this
is that we've gone over to London.

And this is on a graveyard and we couldn't
do any grading and it was a lovely So

we just made it more lumpy and
filled them with the company boards but

just breaking space down to smaller space
for the people can actually get together

in smaller groups and still be part of
the scene that's a fundamental truth

to them of doing good spaces for
people sort of bus stop and

a place where because the community
there were very under-served So

this was on the way to the bus stop and
you could actually play with the kids and

I'm good thanks the neighborhood so
it was very well utilize.

This is actually what got me started.

In the U.K. And it was a result
of a bomb blast by the Iranian.

Society so I couldn't really harm.

The city very wisely decided to
put those you know once just

the street back into a plaza the idea
we always do have a narrative we

do everything the site specific and
we don't repeat yourself so

it was a lot of recent So it turns out
that there is a geological kind of rift

between the slower section where it's
on this outcropping of York stone and

that was did over again this road and
then the upper

area is a newer shopping district so
the task list and then to go along.

The scene where these rats
forty one level Ramon level.

Ramps and actually stone mansions were

these big malls and then these.

Objects were people sort of were made on
the train parts because without the train

in the street there wouldn't be Manchester
but the real great opportunity is that

if you wanted to live something
you could or some people that's.

Faces son and this is this is
a great this is this is what makes

a successful side OK you know they put a
screen on this old beautiful building but

people have sandwiches during lunch and
watch the soap operas and

it became kind of the poster child for
how a space and

activate a city more and
more people moved and it really became.

The poster child for the space and
for urban regeneration.

So again London this is
a Canary Wharf this is a bridge for

the brothers planned era of super high
density a hundred story buildings and

we did the public role it was called FOUR.

Years Canary Wharf.

And it has a very very rigid kind of
relationship between the platform and

the water and this is are we decided
to do something different and

there are more so-called war so
we made this kind of.

Kind of public space very fan shopping.

Would be interesting because it could
be everything it could be a bridge or

be an island computer lab to
get retail underneath there but

what the interesting story about the sun
is out there was a very important while

the client we were able to work with a
small town in South America where a client

would actually purchase a huge part of
the land that went in for perpetuity.

So it could be simply harvested and
we would be a thing if it weren't so

actually how we how you actually get
your materials becomes very important.

So this is an all square
regeneration of the Docklands.

Theater but we were the first guys
to do anything in this area and

the U.K. I thought was like I had died and

gone to heaven because they actually
put in the landscape first but

I know here we do it at the very
end when everybody's for money but

there are if you put in the landscape and
you open up the development of turns out

that the developers are more likely to
come in and buy a property there that's

what a higher price because somebody has
already been there and committed to it so

that was my job was to do something
that would mark the space at

the beginning of this development
before the building was put in and

the other thing is that the client said
you know for God's sakes make it colorful

because the city is so gray so they're
going to pull down the red carpet and

now it's a real destination a lot of
people they all know where it is it's

a it's a destination you can go
to it's a part of the place and

the good news about the support you
know performance somebody's everything

is out of museums in public spaces
that's what's happening is a lot

of public spaces and shows real generosity
of the city towards the citizens and

its people all levels so
that they become very very important

to create a lively city.

This place never went down there and the
economic turndown because all the offices

are still run to the restaurants are so
full and not just because of the open

space but the open space Koreans this
environment you know and help to support

but this was a happening place so
it can help the future proof you know.

This we're still.

In Europe this is a plus or
probably you know.

What you might remember if you
remember all that there's a big circle

of traffic going right through
here is a statue of Marie.

And our contribution was
really urban design and

say OK let's put this
together as one big space.

And get the traffic to move around it so
that took a lot of leverage and

persistence and you're it's
a tremendously popular destination

people go there they do all sorts of
things that you do in the city plaza but

what we did it to make
sure that in the design.

We accommodated.

All retail food and beverage because
people can have a cup of coffee

they don't hang out and this is
assurance surface so you can still get.

A bus and service and back here but.

Really putting it back to
the fabric of the city

has changed the way people
use this part of the city.

So it's become very very active you
can have you know from the protests.

Kids can do cool things.

So it's really you know it's how
you can actually this is an old

treasure that has been overlooked
in the views for a long.

All right so we're going from Europe we're
going over the Middle East this is for

kilometers of the the sort of
the beach the major real estate that.

The downtown we were asked to particular
team as the architects are actually

putting together a marketing for you go
and hire an architect if you're lucky.

An engineer or some people who can
help you know advance planning

retail experts economists.

Shows how to work in all these different
cultures this is a culture that basically

really wanted.

A lot of people around them.

And most people around them are not and
law and lobbying so

we have to design a structure that
allows people to be in the world so

I could be a program organize a cutoff so
it was doing with that culture and

their sensitivities was one
really because you know the big

issue of course is that in fifty years
the whole thing would be flooded by water.

Anywhere close to that
one by you know you're.

Down some from the front and so these
are the room seven hundred meters each so

that they actually could manage and
it's a double decker or

a steam because we suggested drafting
to create a bulkhead that would

support them for
the next hundred years or so.

And that really turned into
a double decker corn eater and

she hopes where there would be a green
room for people to get out of the sun and

still be on the beach and all the
architectural program there's a lot to be

fit underneath so that you have a clean
up beach and the most important thing

was that we actually got them
to have a true public and

to their city where you can
actually walk along the beach so

that was a new social revolution
to a city that's how powerful

it can be is people really act
differently to each other and

how they use you know their own cities.

And so the like.

And of course getting to know.

Getting an.

Ability every project we do
that's our ethos I'm not going to

talk a lot about how we do it but
just how we do do it is

fundamental to what we do so like hunger.

OK we don't the financial
center is a stock exchange.

Jim gas from New York.

Are well let's say it was on top
of the roof and shopping but

we decided that we were.

Kind of balanced on the masculine.

I move the transformer ask some of
the building we decided we would go

to our Grammys and to Macassar so
but I mean honestly I mean

the culture really loves for
a pattern rich.

TRUMKA of carpets and the other thing
is that we have to figure out exactly

where we can build a very lightweight
let's say because of course there was no

steel there was no you know the same thing
nobody had thought we still have a park in

fact if you really want to
landscape you need sword.

And soil needs to be held up by steel it's
about one hundred pounds per square foot

so I don't know why that escapes.

People but so.

Far So all these this is all
here surface form for our cars.

And pedestrians mounds
because we want to try and

create some kind of sense of green.

Truck of getting you know your it's like
a grocery store we're all vegetable so

tilted up to make it look like
there's more we use the same thing but

these are the same green walls so
underneath that there's nothing in so

well there is one that's just structure so
these are very thin sections so

I pulled the door gobby and
it uses water very very efficiently and

it allows us to kind of really
plant in very gardens clay.

And they did a beautiful
job the stone bench and

all the benches have these little in
the water water reveal lots and so

there's always the sound of water
this is really important so there.

But there is a sense of green and

more even though it's you
know in the desert very very.

OK.

OK we're moving on to.

This is in Kuala Lumpur they
are really bad because the whole city

is sinking why because they all drank
the water out of their aquifer and they

have a lot of reverse running through it
and the river some clogged up with trash

that the weight of the rivers is forcing
the city down so all the development

communities are getting the Dutch to
build these islands and then you know.

I mean it's pretty.

Also all the young girls
have been wiped out.

In the sea water is I mean these people
have like this concrete wall also over

a foot deep of concrete blocks and
then there's the ocean.

And so we work with us so.

They are doing here in
the kind of work together and

do the master planning
of this residential and

you know because they're going to
about seventy thousand people here but

the major underlying if you will is
the water because we figured out that

it was brave enough that it would
supply the island with about three

days of water which meant that the Pope or
the not have to actually build

a whole water system from
the mainland to you know Island and

they could just capture and
clean up research in it so

when you're out there doing the stuff
you basically have to teach people all

the time what they can do so
that you can build sustainably and

how it will save them money because if it
doesn't save the money even in the long

term it's very tough to get the ball
because it's and but if you didn't have to

actually save it for the infrastructure
the supple car is basically.

Ever tension pong and
also have to function as a high and

present area for.

So.

The idea was how you plan ahead and
step it so

it doesn't look terrible when one goes up
and down the other it is very hard for

an end and it was about getting
people down to the water.

And the second island is slightly
different terms of the next but

the water again is channel area but
this is kind of been great up

those mountains because it's so
it was down this one is up and

then this is a little marina
what we do here is we've created

a whole new status for
all of the mangroves.

So you know I mean really inserting
them into the report of them is going to

be used to build up the island and
a park that gets you down to them so

that these are floating walkways Would

that will happen is only islands built and

then we found somebody who told
us how to actually insert.

These big never really looked back baskets
and insert them into the rubble and

eventually they would form roots and
Craig groves and.

Water rises eventually the macros
will expand as well so

that's what that will look like.

Also it underpins the fisheries
in the basic economy

without the member of
the fish really phone.

Number China is largest housing.

The building also the landscape
which kind of failed because it was.

First as an angle roof and

if you set it up like straight
it falls down so we were there.

Also you know some of the problem but
what we did is we were

very respectful of Syrians ideas we didn't
have to do something just because in China

their own opinion but what we did is
we simple five the planting I wonder

do you know that the most are really
not beautiful There are very lumpy so

we are very textured planting out so

you didn't notice the you
know that the mounds are so

rough so much better shape now but
they've become very very good color and

sauce and very high income and
something they actually support art and

design.

And this work this is an art and

seven this is a actually
the first prize we did in China.

And here on which is where all the terror.

Soldiers are.

They were six master so-called gardeners
and we were given small plots and

of about one hundred feet by her feet and
I decided to do

basically a maze where you walk
through these hallways and

doorways because the topic was
the one that is called the harmonious

coexistence between city and
nature sounds right so

here's an acre and here a city.

Traditionally here on this beautiful
green grass and beautifully portion and

then these houses of low so the bark
is a very common architectural form so

here it is sitting in nature terms and.

What it is it's a it's a garden ways it's
a fun house and none of the following some

sprays they're all coming want to so
you don't point.

Or.

You know it.

Looks a little you come across like
you're in one of those tilted rooms so.

These.
One of those hallways is a mirror so they.

Are reflected in.

Infinite city.

So you walk in and then once.

It was interesting because most
of the people are themselves.

Which also the Chinese are like my God
you know where am I supposed to go and.

What I want.

A place you know where do I
go on some of the hallways.

Or you don't go to the right door and
nothing is completely.

And then we have a thousand
fold increase in just a.

Chinese garden feature.

Kind of.

Going on but if you're looking
you just walk straight through.

With.

A willow tree.

Triangle So it looks less.

And then it's over that you get to walk
out the whole of it and it's only.

Actually there on the earth and
you can watch the time going through and

you were very upset that they
were being watched I mean.

We saw all sorts of things happening in.

The party for the whole summer no idea.

Where he picked her boyfriend.

Or just girl you know.

A couple in.

The sky was very.

Really Big Brother Both course

I didn't want to be under house
arrest with anyone with myself.

And so this is again with THANK YOU WE'RE
GOING TO THE END THIS IS A BIG mixed use

development in Chung training
which is a very very holy city of.

Crazy city and sitting thirty million and.

They have interests in China and
of course they do that so

they can sell a property where before
it gets built so the consummate

business guys look the problem here
is the Carson was an environment.

So they have to and I don't know why
they side of the building down here but

I'm saying you've got to get
these people off the road and

down for the simple sellers
of the by are you know so

this is all to be a temporary landscape
of everything around here was a death and

destruction so we have to kind of
keep them inside the walls here so

what we do notice in order to lead
people down we created it it's called.

The development so we make these
mountains so like the Hansel and

Gretel thing really actually falls
down the hillside often laughs and

some sales volume so you know.

The warmer and the basically sort of
Astroturf waltzing didn't really see

the death and destruction happening
outside and kind of meandering down for

the space now this is what these
residential communities look like these

are like sixty story
you know recede towers.

And.

What's good about what happened is
that the people across the street

love this place so
much that suddenly permanent.

This is both here and kind of you're
supposed to go up to the whole thing is

orchestra going to take a look at the
university with vibe that we keep on going

on here so you know it's like a it's
the streets at the Zion but the states

of design look back and there's a mountain
climbing up that wall they call.

Well I said you want the problem and
some will just do it

OK.

So now it's a permanent part of the great.

You can't you know it's everything
sixty years which is good

I mean this is a shopping.

Residential tower.

Or.

A big deck idea and

this thing is massive This is
actually going up right now.

The fun thing about China is that
they just build the stuff of.

The building and
the I think death is that it.

Is invite people to come and the land.

And so you can see this kind of on the
raveling of of the fabric into the grays

so these are all benches and that's
the bench or this kind of long strings of

shapes and that's what it looks and
some of the Sea of these kind.

Of.
Bands and now OK the sail Sunderland's

great you drive your partner
car you walk by you know but

the idea was this summer
if a wave of dancers arts.

And a continuum and
they build it you call Don.

Crazy this really crazy I mean it's
like Alice in Wonderland Now I did

not specify the formal but
I should have on which I have

before I was a great touch and
you should see the size of the tree so.

Unbelievable you know this
is our trauma gateway.

OK this one.

From.

Beijing army on the from
the our side is very.

Just happened and
the developer owns a site and you want.

I'll show you basically wanted to do
a really great streetscape so all Obama.

Care and he would see what a very vocal.

But it starts off where they want
Amdo you'll see this hotel and

big serial hotel with these militants
with this kind of temple like structure.

This side is all they were
full Frank Lloyd Wright.

And I saw this and they were good friends.

Of prevention houses and in the middle.

East by today and so
was the China so this is a.

Village you know that I mean this is
just you know billionaire stuff going on

this is what books are just there so
the water stuff sounds very very minimal

very very peaceful very very Or is this so

well before it was built I said OK we're
going to do the same thing we're going to

use a landscape to bring the water from
this higher level where the hotel is down

to the lake around where
the island is this remark and

some water didn't realize broken color it
was also important because as you go back

into space he said let's get spaced out so
each one of those rods articulated and

they're not actually you can see them
they don't all meld into one one and

I'm blind so here we're all
working on this this is a plan for

the hotel and we're trying to figure out
what we're doing the system that actually

sort of designed a reference
from Chicago brilliant.

You're trying to figure out the life.

Of a perfect picture but so what I
want to do is kind of do a very simple

whole series of water based.

Went into the war and
this is a down here because.

Obama and everybody would be
looking back at the scar and.

So we decided to make them one simple
series of pool's that step down and

the water and this is.

And let me transfer that they are.

So this is our scheme and the idea is
flowing carpets of water so that they

are these very very thin sections of water
that are floating as you look out so

the effects on this giant are good but
when you're looking back

there is a lot of space between them so
people actually come down.

People really crossing.

For them.

So that at some point disobey built right
now they have to close down the entire

thing but what they did the court
decided was to do the streets so

the construction crew was actually
start so we had two weeks to figure out

the building and then the streets it
goes on for about a mile an hour.

So we want to do another
serial piece along the road.

Piece kind of morphed into a serial
piece plus kind of different levels

we still work with our hands we sort of
models it's only until we know what we're

doing before we go and get a load
of stones you'll see this was very

inspirational to us but the idea was that
we could actually make a small park along

the road as well with these boxes and
these boxes would be planted with

bamboo and
beautiful specimens of blocks from.

And so again it's a series of design
behind is a form for it for growth.

And this is kind of what that looks.

Now when.

It's only the choices that you have or the
material is crazy the problem is that they

don't know how to put them together and
your map is trying to figure out.

What are we clapping is going to be.

The choice is amazing rock shopping.

More rock opera.

I want to say that every
time I go over there more.

Than One is always driving
them we shall find.

A link things out mocking things up and
here it is done and this is a end of what.

Are.

Our mountain you know we can't see
anything but this thing is seriously long

as a as a landscape.

So.

It won't get into the army in
the backyard of the that's and

that's another story.

It's very beautiful eternal
bliss is now it's here.

So yes.

We go very quickly this is a promise there
or else it's a foster as a master plan but

part of the site is going to be par for
to keep a lot of the industrial robots and

this is a risk even some water from.

My drawing.

It's about connecting the sale
center across the small river and

to a park for the whole neighborhood back
here and then this is industrial site.

So I'm not going to go and really it's
about trying to create different spaces

the water management scheme very
important to get all the dream

have to go through a fire or
mediation on the.

Top level the war zone.

These are ons where the world has been for
the media.

Really work there for.

Parks where.

People can do all sorts of things and
Chinese love to be entertained so

we're actually using a lot of the stuff
that's on the site will be getting buried

in the landscape the music itself it
is examples of all are in this for

the parks we're looking towards.

A full the full the command center.

Trying to keep the heart does
of in this film is Asian and

different kinds of experiences.

In a very with you till the real story.

And then the slow going on and.

On and on and.

On with there is a gong to six million
we're going to ask you the waterfront.

Happens to be a place where all
of the dinosaurs went to die and

it was the beginning of
the song sort of the.

Mining.

Again of water getting water off
the top of the of the embankment and

down the side and cleaning out to be the
word until it credibly polluted river but

everybody has to do
their part to do it and.

That's a side dark room no water and
it's a steep slope so

you have to get people down
ramps to down the rivers and so

because we have to use a lot of.

Structure to hold up the big
structure kind of express them.

We have contained all the water on the
inside of the back and so we clear that.

This is a top level the will have a whole
new housing development on public so

does store.

The structure as such so we're using the
water to actually drip places so it's air.

Of course and
fly over to those cleaning stream but

also recruiting steps for people and
places where people can perch

on this very steep slope at sea and
where the dragon boat comes.

From.

OK last one for
back home is probably all the way.

Back where we are this is Washington D.C.

and Maryland Well of course the vehicle
and they are all in actually and

because the forests are so beautiful
the first acid is an insulation some

are still doing art Michael McCaul
all of us are calling for

we need a fence for them to control the
crowds from going into the pavilion and

use it for a billion so
we decided to do a green wall but

our green walls are actually green too and
the two has all these holes in it and

the souls will be outfitted for
sound from Lloyds for

all sorts of things up a community
can actually interact with.

Those kind of shows a section for this
to something you know really cheap and

we can run all the electricity.

And everything sound systems in
the middle person can get in there.

But you can also buy your own way.

The whole of you know of
the actions of your dog and

their own whatever.

It will be that the service itself
will be planted there of the earth

these earthen bricks where you put
these plugs that will be green but

then the bigger holes
will be different things.

And our other piece is
a three hundred foot.

Seat twenty five feet by three hundred
feet and the see that's so obvious but

even just on the floor of the forest which
is actually green grass but we put it

in the water actually co-ax and it gets
trampled with all the people and it gets.

And it's really it's really degraded so
to protect this with this kind of

wetland area we put the structure
in the water and go down there and

this is Astroturf and
Mary Matalin just covers so

in the summertime with a number of reeling
and so you got there in the winter

is a strip of green of the bomb for
us and a great place for

people to have their beer parties and
you know hang out there and thank you

again.

And I feel happy to have a way.

They are.

All as far.

As questions you.

Want your tired your hundred yes sir.

It's.

It's.

It's getting smallish slush but
let me just clarify for

a second I'll tell you the basic
makeup of the people in our office.

Are the types of there are and
the third people who are Dumbo.

So we're often asked to come up
with a concept that these concepts.

Really have structures in them or
the bigger or other about like because if

you're doing public spaces of public and
private or like in the Middle East.

Trying to figure out what to do with
the bottom of the bird you know with.

The disaster ring of the really on your
dogs nobody more about what happened on

landscape of the earth but there need to
be placed people cool in the structure so

we would like to give a suggestion
of what that might be.

As an architect and work for
each other for a long time so what.

We have leaves would like to.

Kick the ball off and say this is a kind
of structure that we would like to see so

it supports everything.

You know.

So that you will do a concept.

That we have.

To do more but

we actually are an architecture
officer not in our life you know.

Because I don't do it.

I'd like to work in Africa
any after the crisis schools.

I'd like to work there I'd like to do
more work on United States so anybody.

But I feel like it's a bad
cultural next I feel like I was

a refugee from the United States but
other places stifle it would

take what I have to offer
the state of the safe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Old

standards.

Banks.

You know you.

I'm going to mess with their own for
a long time already but they left before

it's really great all around and
really also.

There are a lot of I did see it.

Sarah as a composer in gallery and so
sometimes you know all these are still

really good that was amazing but
there are a lot of young Laura's.

Reducing.

Their rebuilding verses.

All his old school at this point so.

Yeah I think a lot of the you
know I guess I'm I'm I'm too

old to know exactly without There are
three letters a really good place to see

are the three sparrow examples really and
it wasn't very.

You know.

I think actually I don't I can't even
remember the names but the art scene and

China while I was doing.

But already established.

So I think people one selfish but
real leaders out there in

the arts in China is really
amazing I mean this kind of.

Emerging and anger Who are you know it's
really off the wall still really good so

Margaret producer of
Contemporary Art No really come from.

You

know.

About me no.

Such.

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