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There are more buildings that are empty or in disrepair than occupied and in use.
And the only places to get WiFi are in the school buildings, or at the Bojangles Fried Chicken joint, which I find myself squatting outside of a lot.
Many are homeless, and those with homes are packed into rotting buildings with up to five families.
It grows as high as a coconut tree in two months and three years later it can be harvested to build buildings like this.
And Balinese carpenters like this measured them with their bamboo rulers, selected the bamboo and built the buildings using age-old techniques, mostly by hand.
I grew up in tenement buildings in the inner city.
So for instance, you could develop super-efficient roof structures based on giant Amazon water lilies, whole buildings inspired by abalone shells, super-lightweight bridges inspired by plant cells.
Women can talk; black men ski; white men build strong buildings; we build strong suns.
And the same is more or less what Santiago Calatrava said when he said, "Light: I make it in my buildings for comfort."
And he created these gorgeous buildings where you can see the sky, and where you can experience the sun, that give us a better life in the built environment, just because of the relevance of light in its brightness and also in its shadows.
I took this photo two weeks ago in Guangzhou, and I realized that 10 years ago, there was nothing like this, of these buildings.
Each mirror, there are four of them, is made of a single piece of glass, a monolithic piece of high-tech ceramic, that has been ground down and polished to such accuracy that the only way to understand what that is is [to] imagine a city like Paris, with all its buildings and the Eiffel Tower, if you grind down Paris to that kind of accuracy, you would be left with bumps that are one millimeter high.
I have a studio in London that has a particular approach to designing buildings.
And I was there looking at the larger scale of buildings and finding that the buildings that were around me and that were being designed and that were there in the publications I was seeing felt soulless and cold.
In the projects we've been working on, these slick buildings, where they might be a fancy shape, but the materiality feels the same, is something that we've been trying to research really, and explore alternatives.
And the project that we're building in Malaysia is apartment buildings for a property developer.
And the conventional thing with apartment buildings in this part of the world is you have your tower, and you squeeze a few trees around the edge, and you see cars parked.
And by linking these together, we could have 90 percent of the site as a rainforest, instead of only 10 percent of scrubby trees and bits of road around buildings.
So we're building these buildings.
Despite my efforts to comfort myself, I still left my community as soon as I could, and I went to architecture school and then into a professional career designing shopping centers, homes for the wealthy and office buildings, until I stepped into a prison for the first time.
But building buildings is a really heavy lift.
Today, I'm using it to create permanent, billowing, voluptuous forms the scale of hard-edged buildings in cities around the world.
Now I combine them with hi-tech materials and engineering to create voluptuous, billowing forms the scale of buildings.
There's a point, you can stand here and see buildings by Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Neil Denari.
These guys down on Wall Street, Marco Polo and Cherokee Nation, they're eight microseconds behind all these guys going into the empty buildings being hollowed out up around the Carrier Hotel.
Buildings are complex ecosystems that are an important source of microbes that are good for us, and some that are bad for us.
Buildings are colonized by airborne microbes that enter through windows and through mechanical ventilation systems.
And today, architects and biologists are working together to explore smart building design that will create healthy buildings for us.
Hospitals use two and a half times the amount of energy as office buildings.
And the model that we're working with in hospitals, and also with many, many different buildings, is to keep the outdoors out.
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