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Joe Wiesenthal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
773 total appearances

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

I can confirm having looked at you say like looking out wallpaper and vintage wallpaper that you might be acquiring.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

But no, I have not heard of you sort of talk about, you know, knocking down

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

walls or whatever inside your home.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Although I certainly, you know, in New York City, you know people who do that and they hire an architect as part of, they'll buy two condos or something like that and conjoin them and hire an architect and so forth.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

That's a different level.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

It's a different level of constraints and obligations.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

It's a really interesting thought.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

And I hadn't really thought of it that way.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

But that makes a lot of sense.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

And

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

my, you know, my uninformed gut is like, oh, does social media make it so that people are just much more obsessed with the interior design of a building, the specific aesthetic choices that are made?

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

But of course, on the other hand, you know, we work at Bloomberg.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

We have a big office in London.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Many beautiful buildings, lots of glass, a new London HQ, absolutely gorgeous building, et cetera.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

And so, you know, we do live surrounded in this world that

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

The world we live in is one that was built by architects or designed by architects.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

That's a fascinating question.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

I hadn't really thought of it framed in that way.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

But for example, again, the new JP Morgan building in New York City, I like it.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

I don't work there, but I think it's a cool addition to Skyline.