Ivanka Trump
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first heard Jul 2024
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So while you have to think big picture, it means you really have to care deeply about the details because you live with them. So it allowed me to flex a lot of areas of interest.
It's funny because we're all so insecure, right, in the most basic interactions, but yet our ambitions are so unbridled in a way that kind of like makes you blush as an adult. And I think it's fun. It's fun to like tap into that energy. Yeah.
We get conditioned out of that feeling.
We start to become insecure and we start to rely on the input or validation of others. And it takes us away from that sort of core drive and ambition. So it's fun to reflect on that and also to smile, right? Because whether you can execute or not, time will tell. But yeah, no, that was very much my childhood.
I think in some ways you look out at different city skylines and it's almost like a visual depiction of ambition realized, right? Like it's a testament to somebody's dream. Not somebody, a whole... ensemble of people's dreams and visions and triumphs, and in some cases, failures, if the projects weren't properly executed. So you look at these skylines, and it's a testament to that.
I actually heard once architecture described as frozen music. That really resonated with me.
Yeah. I remember the first time I went to Dubai and I was watching them dredging out and creating these man-made islands. And I remember somebody once saying to me there, an architect, an architect actually who collaborated with us on our tower in Chicago, He said that the only thing that limited what an architect could do in that area was gravity and imagination. So it's, you know.
It definitely is. And bridges, I mean, some of the iconic designs in our country are incredible bridges.
I think the water is an unbelievable feature of the New York skyline as you see the island on approach. And oftentimes you'll see like in these images, you'll see these towers reflecting off of the water surface. So I think there's something very beautiful and unique about that. When I look at New York, I see this unbelievable sort of tapestry of different types of architecture.
So you have the Gothic form as represented by buildings like the Woolworth Building, or you'll have Art Deco as represented by buildings like 40 Wall Street or the Chrysler Building or Rockefeller Center. And then you'll have these unbelievable super modern examples or modernist examples like Lever House and Seagram's House. So you have all of these different styles.
And I think to build in New York, You're really building the best of the best. So nobody's giving New York their sort of second-rate work. And especially when a lot of those buildings were built, there was this incredible competition happening between New York and Chicago for kind of dominance of the sky. Right.
And for who could create the greatest skyline, this sort of race to the sky when skyscrapers were first being built, starting in Chicago and then New York, surpassing that in terms of height, at least, with the Empire State Building.
So I love sort of contextualizing the skylines as well and thinking back to when different components that are so iconic were added and the context in which they came into being.
I think it's hard to look at something like the Tribune Tower and not be completely in awe. Like this is an unbelievable building. Look at those buttresses and you've got gargoyles hanging off of it. And, you know, this style was reminiscent of the cathedrals of Europe, which was very kind of in vogue in like the 1920s here in America. Actually, I mentioned the Woolworth Tower before.
The Woolworth Tower was actually referred to as the Cathedral of Commerce because it also was in that Gothic style. Amazing. So this was built maybe a decade before the Tribune building. But the Tribune building, to me, is... It's almost not replicable.
It personally really resonates with me because one of the first projects I ever worked on was building Trump Chicago, which was this beautiful, elegant, super modern, all glass skyscraper right across the way. So it was right across the river. So I would look out the windows as it was under construction or be standing quite literally on rebar of the building looking out at the Tribune and
and incredibly inspired. And now the reflective glass of the building reflects back not only the river, but also the Tribune building and other buildings on Michigan Avenue.
I think it depends. Like they have super reflective glass that sometimes doesn't work. It's distracting. And I think it's one component of sort of a composition that comes together. I think in this case, the glass on Trump's Chicago is very beautiful.
It was designed by Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, a major architecture firm who actually did the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which is, I think, like an awe-inspiring example of modern architecture. But glass is tricky. You have to get the shade right. You know, some glass has a lot of iron in it and gets super green sometimes. And that's a choice.
And sometimes you have more blue properties, blue silver, like you see here. But it's part of the character.
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