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If we look at the world of architecture, we see with Mies' 1928 tower for Berlin, the question might be, "Well, where's the sun?"
Can we use cell phone tower data?
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.
The lowest value is actually the bottom part of a tower like this.
According to that story, early humans developed the conceit that, by using their language to work together, they could build a tower that would take them all the way to heaven.
So you can print out whatever you want, you can print out a tower bridge, you can print out Agathe's husband ... (Laughter) OK, but, what makes it so mind-blowing?
You maybe notice this scale bar, and it's 100 microns for the tower bridge and 20 microns for the fat man.
Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, he dreamed up many of his amazing creations in a lonely bell tower office that he had in the back of his house in La Jolla, California.
For the footnote panel in this work, this office instructed me to photograph their central television tower in Beijing.
You have these unbelievable new cities in China, which you might call tower sprawl.
We're speaking about the fact that across the terrace, the next tower is the Ministry of Finance, and there's a lot of connection with us today, so we're speaking within your temple today.
The Ministry of Finance is the next tower over.
And there's this Flaubert quote that I love: "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it."
About eight years ago, people started moving into the abandoned tower and began to build their homes right in between every column of this unfinished tower.
Together, the inhabitants created public spaces and designed them to feel more like a home and less like an unfinished tower.
Within the tower, people have come up with all sorts of solutions in response to the various needs which arise from living in an unfinished tower.
With no elevators, the tower is like a 45-story walkup.
And with each inhabitant finding their own unique way of coming by, this tower becomes like a living city, a place which is alive with micro-economies and small businesses.
A walk through the tower reveals how residents have figured out how to create walls, how to make an air flow, how to create transparency, circulation throughout the tower, essentially creating a home that's completely adapted to the conditions of the site.
When a new inhabitant moves into the tower, they already have a roof over their head, so they just typically mark their space with a few curtains or sheets.
The inhabitants literally built up these homes with their own hands, and this labor of love instills a great sense of pride in many families living in this tower.
Throughout the tower, you come across all kinds of services, like the barber, small factories, and every floor has a little grocery store or shop.
This year, we start the process, with the Angolan government, to establish one of the largest systems of protected areas in the world to preserve the Okavango-Zambezi water tower we have been exploring.
On March 11 of 2005, I responded to a radio call of a possible suicidal subject on the bridge sidewalk near the north tower.
When he saw me, he immediately traversed that pedestrian rail, and stood on that small pipe which goes around the tower.
Those people are well-trained workers, and they are assembling the top piece of the tower.
I remember the tall sentry tower with the machine guns pointed at us.
First, training has moved out of the ivory tower and into clinic classrooms and neighborhoods, the kinds of places most of these grads will practice.
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.
And crucial to this design was that the inmates could not actually see into the panopticon, into the tower, and so they never knew if they were being watched or even when.
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