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While working on this in our office, we've realized that we're building upon the work of our colleagues, including architect Tatiana Bilbao, working in Mexico City; Pritzker laureate Alejandro Aravena, working in Chile; and recent Pritzker winner Balkrishna Doshi, working in India.
And all of them are building spectacular new forms of affordable housing, but they're also building cities of difference, because they're building cities that respond to local communities, local climates and local construction methods.
We're doubling down on that idea, we're researching a new model for our growing cities with gentrification pressures, that could build upon that late-19th-century model with that center core, but a prototype that could shape-shift in response to local needs and local building materials.
And this is the type of building we were shown as an example, to my team and myself, of what we had to design.
But the question was how we could do a multistory, contemporary building with these principles.
So the first thing we did was to create a connection between these two streets, putting all the entrances of the building.
And this extends with an inclined atrium that creates an open-air space in the building that self-protects itself with its own shape from the sun and the rain.
I also thought, how to close the building?
And we are building that with these small prefabricated pieces that are the windows that let the air and the light in a controlled way inside the building.
And this is complemented by these small colored glasses that use the light from the inside of the building to light up the building at night.
And the first implementation was to think about how we could make the building self-sufficient in terms of energy in a city that has electricity cuts almost every day.
And it's where all the neighbors, they can go up and socialize, and do activities such as having a two-kilometer run in the morning, jumping from one building to another.
In fact, in China they're building a whole load of these right now.
But of course if that sea crossing were somewhere like Gibraltar, or in this case, the Red Sea, we would indeed be building multiple superlong spans and that would be something spectacular, wouldn't it?
And it's a pretty big building.
They probably have a team building on Thursday evening in a pub.
Privacy is the building block of our democracies.
By building together open, free, secure systems, we can go around such surveillance, and then one country doesn't have to solve the problem by itself.
It was time to push what I called MAPS 3. Now MAPS 3, like the other two programs, had had an economic development motive behind it, but along with the traditional economic development tasks like building a new convention center, we added some health-related infrastructure to the process.
We're building a downtown streetcar to try and help the walkability formula for people who choose to live in the inner city and help us create the density there.
We're building senior health and wellness centers throughout the community.
We also, with another initiative that was passed, are building hundreds of miles of new sidewalks throughout the metro area.
We'll have over 100 miles when we're through building it out.
And second, we need the businesses that are building out this read-write culture to embrace this opportunity expressly, to enable it, so that this ecology of free content, or freer content, can grow on a neutral platform where they both exist simultaneously, so that more-free can compete with less-free, and the opportunity to develop the creativity in that competition can teach one the lessons of the other.
For about a year now, my colleagues and I have been building drones for Nepal and training the park protection personnel on the use of these drones.
Since then, we've been building drones for our collaborators from around the world, and these include fellow biologists and partners from major conservation organizations.
But the real power of the CAO is its ability to capture the actual building blocks of ecosystems.
So yesterday, I was out in the street in front of this building, and I was walking down the sidewalk, and I had company, several of us, and we were all abiding by the rules of walking down sidewalks.
And if we can start to find compassion for one another, then we have a shot at building common ground.
"A clay building is not able to stand a rainy season, and Francis wants us to use it and build a school.
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