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At these large-scale construction sites in China, you see a sort of makeshift camp where workers live during the entire building process.
As the length of the construction takes years, workers end up forming a rather rough-and-ready informal city, making for quite a juxtaposition against the sophisticated structures that they're building.
The building was under construction until the collapse of the Venezuelan economy and the death of the developer in the early '90s.
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.
Hopefully by the beginning of next year, because we are already on the fifth floor of the construction.
The roof, which is my favorite space of the project is almost like giving back to the community the space taken by the construction.
In our world of construction, the changes seem positively glacial.
We're currently working on one in Turkey which is a bit longer, and we've designed the Messina Bridge in Italy, which is just waiting to get started with construction one day, who knows when.
Oil and gas companies use them for exploration and construction.
The Dalai Lama was once in Portugal, and there was a lot of construction going on everywhere.
Let's talk about construction.
But, you know, construction, of course, is one of the reasons why architecture is amazing.
Steel is stockpiled separately, where the carcasses of cars and microwaves and washing machines become iron rods for new construction; where roofing sheets become cookstoves; where shafts from cars become chisels that are used to scrap more objects; where aluminum recovered from the radiators of fridges and air conditioners are melted down and use sand casting to make ornaments for the building industry, for pots which are sold just down the street in the Agbogbloshie market with a full array of locally made ovens, stoves and smokers, which are used every day to make the majority of palm nut soups, of tea and sugar breads, of grilled tilapia in the city.
Kids made hamburger cards that were made out of construction paper.
And they made thank you pizzas, where every kid signed a different topping of a construction paper pizza.
It's still under construction, but actually it is heavily used by the local population.
One of the workers at the temple construction site has injured his arm.
And under construction in Singapore, again middle-income housing, gardens, community streets and parks and so on and so forth.
But in order to be part of this conversation, we need to know what we want to do next, because political action is being able to move from agitation to construction.
Workers were coming back from their grueling day of work, and I struck a conversation with a Bangladeshi construction worker.
It is not only construction workers from Bangladesh, it is all the workers.
A construction worker from Bangladesh, on an average, pays about 4,000 dollars in recruitment fees for a job that gives him only 2,000 dollars per year in income.
It is not only Bangladeshi construction workers, it is workers from all over the world.
This realization was exploited most powerfully for pragmatic ends by the 18th- century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who set out to resolve an important problem ushered in by the industrial age, where, for the first time, institutions had become so large and centralized that they were no longer able to monitor and therefore control each one of their individual members, and the solution that he devised was an architectural design originally intended to be implemented in prisons that he called the panopticon, the primary attribute of which was the construction of an enormous tower in the center of the institution where whoever controlled the institution could at any moment watch any of the inmates, although they couldn't watch all of them at all times.
The plan was to hand it over to a developer, who planned to turn it into a construction site.
It is up to us to decide whether we want schools or parking lots, community-driven recycling projects or construction sites, loneliness or solidarity, cars or buses, and it is our responsibility to do that now, for ourselves, for our families, for the people who make our lives worth living, and for the incredible creativity, beauty, and wonder that make our cities, in spite of all of their problems, the greatest invention of our time.
Every morning, her father would wake up in the hopes he'd be picked for construction work, and on a good month he would earn 50 dollars.
By doing so, we were able to save four million dollars, and that is why the forest is today under construction.
So be it the force of self construction, the force of common sense, or the force of nature, all these forces need to be translated into form, and what that form is modeling and shaping is not cement, bricks, or wood.
JK: So we went back, and we employed Angelo, and he's a local artist from Vila Cruzeiro, very talented guy, and he knows almost everybody there, and then we employed Elias, our former landlord who invited us into his house, and he's a master of construction.
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