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The kids are out there on-site, building the buildings.
And this school, named after the U.K.'s first female doctor, and the surrounding buildings named for Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, Mary Seacole, the Jamaican nurse known as the "black Florence Nightingale," and the English author, Emily Bronte, honor women who fought sexism, racism and ignorance, to pursue their passions to feed their own souls.
And what was also one of the bigger projects around that was moving 13 full-size cities up out of the reservoir, and flattening all the buildings so they could make way for the ships.
I think 11 of the buildings they used dynamite, everything else was by hand.
And one of the things in this picture that I wanted to point out is that when I saw these kinds of buildings, I was shocked to see that they're not using a central air-conditioning system; every window has an air conditioner in it.
And when you look at the worldwide sources of CO2, 52 percent are tied to buildings.
They were taking photos of buildings.
They were taking videos of buildings shaking.
If you think of the great buildings, of the cathedrals, of the temples, of the pyramids, of pagodas, of cities in India and beyond, you think of how incredible this is that that was realized not by some abstract idea, but by people.
But I think these are the necessary oxygen for us to live in buildings, to live in cities, to connect ourselves in a social space.
And yet that energy and power of architecture has driven an entire social and political space that these buildings occupy.
Too many buildings that you see outside that are so banal tell you a story, but the story is very short, which says, "We have no story to tell you."
You know Frank Gehry's buildings, they will continue to be unexpected in the future.
We think the world really looks like our buildings.
And yet our buildings are pretty much limited by the techniques and wonders that have been part of them.
And of course buildings have their shapes.
I don't like beautiful buildings built for totalitarian regimes.
We too often admire those buildings.
And yet when I think of the poverty of society which doesn't give freedom to its people, I don't admire those buildings.
How could we have buildings that are low cost and affordable for people who work in a first job, assembling something like an iPhone, but make those buildings energy efficient, and make sure that they are safe, so they don't fall down in an earthquake or a hurricane.
And now kinetic and architectural firms like Grimshaw are starting to look at this as a way of coating buildings so that they gather water from the fog. 10 times better than our fog-catching nets.
They're thinking about putting it on the insides of buildings to move water up without pumps.
In "Upwake" buildings wear suits, Zero tap dances on a giant keyboard, clones himself with a scanner, tames and whips the computer mice, sails away into dreamscape from a single piece of paper and launches into space.
Unfortunately, these seed banks are located around the world in buildings and they're vulnerable.
And then there are just daily disasters that take place in these buildings, financial problems and mismanagement and equipment failures, and all kinds of things, and every time something like this happens, it means extinction.
So we actually sort of designed the entire island as a single ecosystem, exploiting wind energy to drive the desalination plants, and to use the thermal properties of water to heat and cool the buildings.
And the buildings, they don't only sort of invoke the imagery of the mountains, they also operate like mountains.
There are other parts of the brain which are specifically involved with the recognition and hallucination of buildings and landscapes.
The pressure to build cities, infrastructure and buildings is at its peak, and as a result, there is a massive building boom as well.
The infrastructure and buildings needed to accommodate this many people is unprecedented in the history of humankind.
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