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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

It blinks, et cetera.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

There's a lot of cool things.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

But how do you design...

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

How do you incentivize a public good as a good way to frame it?

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Purposely dropping breadcrumbs.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Yes.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

In his studio, in his foundation.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Thank you.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

We're in this gorgeous building of yours and we were just looking over there on the shelf there for a series of wood samples.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

For example, different types of wood from different trees.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

At the highest levels of architecture to do a great building, how much does the architect really need to know?

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

I guess maybe material science or at least the true nature of specific materials.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

I'm really fascinated by this idea of, okay, so one might think that an architect is someone who draws lines, draws sketches on a piece of paper, and then maybe there is an engineering firm, and then there's a construction firm, and then so forth.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

I'm fascinated by this idea, and it rings true with other discussions we have.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

We talk to traders, for example, and there's obviously a difference between thinking in your head on a good trade versus thinking

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

what it actually takes to execute it technologically.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

Well, since you alluded to it, and now I'm particularly curious about it, I imagine that in the decades ahead, you know, there will still be new JP Morgan headquarters, New Bloomberg headquarters, etc.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

But there's probably going to be a lot more

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

megaproject still coming out of Asia or Beijing or China specifically.

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Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

And so when you describe that environment is different, what should the architects of the future know about working in these markets?