media from military blogger that ukraine might actually have some success there in next few days. so a sense of kind of growing peril for the russian garrison there. and, you know, growing calls from the russian side, fort vladimir putin to do something about it and turn up the stakes for ukraine before you know, russia faces another defeat, like it's sort of lemon in recent days. the latest developments there from nick connelly in keith, thank you very much. you're watching dw news up next hour documentary looks at women chattering architectures, glass ceiling, gal, elvis, will have your news next hour. i'll see you again very soon. here on the go me about how did she become at off hitler's favorite director? and how did he become a forgotten still pioneer linearly finch died and on ode funk a documentary about love seduction and power ice cold passion

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doing architecture, you do it to 100 percent. oh not the tool to for and for a lot of responsibility i can lose a great deal. architecture is a tough field for women who built ah, the inside of say, guessing the decision makers and those that give out the contract. we are mad with the architecture works under this conditional framework such as we could work in law zahid the ca deed, the queen of curves was one woman who broke through until her death in 2016. she desired structures that are 2nd to none. a deed is one of only 5 female architects who have received one of the sectors most important awards. the pritzky price, along with her div worth as you use a shima. even for l and shelley,

matthew mera and unlock, i dont that's 5 women in 43 years. there are more and better educated female architects than there are male architects. and yet only 5 percent of architectural firms around the world are run by women. for a few years now, women have been coming to the forefront. they're not just fighting for commissions . they're fighting for recognition. what determines the success of women and architecture, and thus of the structures in the world that's around us all. whether they're up in coming or already established with their own firms, working freelance or in administration. what are the working worlds like for these women? what battles do they face? what are their dreams? what drives them? how and why do they built? what does it mean to be an architect?

yeah, it's been leaking. i'm thinking a lie bigger and i'm a partner at the architect. so face of black o lie being in berlin. regina liveing her is one of germany's best known female architects. her buildings range from a kindergarden to industrial structures, all the way to pavilions that seem to glide on air. her latest project is the be hub in the berlin district of fredericks. i'm cried, speck time for a site visit. that is, and this building is, is how silly cold, what was it before a kind of tree that belong to a glass boring factory when the sunday morning agreeable convert to diss? and i think yes, as a possible oldest around here is super co wrangling living just beyond that one. now i think must have fun. it's the healthy home that up front as the homeless. oh, good, a great location and food retired to india. and on the other side there's the s bob . and then there's just the she

a length of the building. it's enormous. sunny non the b hub is a massive project by berlin architectural firm barco liveing. her. it has a total length of 300 meters, with a surface area of 47300 square meters, divided over 10 floors of office space. the facade folds like an accordion offset by horizontal bands of exposed concrete and vertical reinforcements of white fluted terra cotta tiles. it just stands there, tall and long. mexican, my guess is what these corners days and with the layering that these elements mean it doesn't look like one single long buildings. instead, it's like 6 different buildings. and that's important. with the length of 300 me to the infant island of me architect. you can do so much if i didn't move. caleb, he made an spivey anyhow or i

i did with i think i just always find it amazing when you can stand somewhere up high in berlin. you tend to miss the hill that folks in southern germany. i used to, but i find it fascinating to see the city from on high again and again and also the water. regina liveing her was born in stuttgart. 1963 in a family with a definite flare for business to my am it committed? i think it was an adjustable, actually come from a family business in southern germany and this the business and laid a big role in our lives. it gave us a sense of this entrepreneurial spirit and that's similar in architecture. if you go on to have an architect firm and it's a big one, then it's important that you also have business management and leadership quality

in order to keep the shop together actually. and i was really lucky that because i learned from when i was small and i so have it work and perhaps i have a certain gene you could say to do this. so to thing, by the time she was 16, she knew she wanted to be an architect when she finished high school last night and that was make, had i wanted to get away as fast as i could. i wanted out of this very protective environment. it like every stuttgart girl at 1st i went to get one unit, but then i ended up in berlin by chance. and that was like having a broad for someone from stuttgart. it felt like a foreign country living or went to berlin's technical university and took horses and building construction and structural physics. but that soon took her to even further places and happy i applied in america and was accepted at harvard to call me, i'll admit, i was nervous. gabriel, and it is when it's well hobbit is a very good school and it comes with a quite a reputation naturally with me, but that pays off. there are fantastic teachers work in math,

but still they were mostly men on taught seem phenomena, far more men than women. what regina liveing or became acquainted with him in 19 eighties was no exception. while studying testing to her so had to do without heroines, she could use to orient herself. her fellow male students didn't have this problem . but our goal prove i took option was always wore a bow tie. kaufman and local abuses. yeah. had least the glasses with dark frames and our student body. the men were divided into the ones who wore the glasses and, and the ones who was go time talking to you then you knew right away who their role models were and they emulated them. i for the women students didn't have anything like that said, you still dentist. ah, the been a risk is researching the history of women in architecture. the experience is described by casting do herfer are of no surprise to her. busy

that was systematic in history, in the history of architecture in the profession. and we know from our research how many women were marginalized and how many works by women were not documented in the 20th century. and if they were documented, am i still got the credit him? as an architectural student, shavani chakrabarti received a book about eileen gray as a gift. during a seminar trip, she visited great cult status villa in 2006. she came away deeply impressed as well at all miles and i'm back then it was just about a ruin and i was able to get in the house. and i had it all in my hair because i'd studied her so margin arguable. i knew exactly how things looked back then feeling even though a lot of it was in disrepair, but that was a great experience for shavani chakrabarti, the visit to eileen gray's villa was important, decisive even in france of enoch for below when women have too few role models throughout the start than an element of identification is, methinks,

therefore it's easier for men. after all, in the whole of architecture education and planning funds, there are men and they dominate the whole thing. that's why they can identify well with everything in and about this field or at least much earlier than women can. hong at the end of the 1980s at harvard regina liveing or met her leader, partner and husband frank marco. and once i had my harvard degree, i thought i'd finally get to the city of my dreams, new york city. but then there was an economic crisis, and the berlin wall came down. my 1st i said rome, but then let's just go to berlin now. so we pitched our tents here in 1993. it was very modest. we just had a studio apartment. and we said, we try working freelance. we didn't really have anything at all. there was just a name plate on the outside of the building that said barcode i been architects, and that's how it started. their breakthrough came in 2001 when they were commissioned to build the potsdam biosphere for germany's national guard and show

the gargantuan structure of concrete and glass provided a home for more than 20000 tropical plants. monumental in style. it was located on a former military hiring range at the city's edge. more prestigious projects followed, including one for the southern german family business. trump. we didn't have the n with a no time. we were being allowed to build in berlin on the most varied of sites already different neighborhoods and of course, surroundings play a really big role in those cases. i had the central train station in the rope, city, for example. you would do different things than you would in the quotes back district where you find well developed quotes, bag loft architecture, loft stretches or imprints. so a bag in a back courtyard on corvette, that architect helga blocks, door slice story was filled with challenges. now she's conquered, the art of building the mainland event, kate, ems out winter. she says, you know how people gush rely, varies greatly depending on your situation from the stars. my mother raised 3 girls

on her own and our circumstances growing up were extremely precarious. one option that we in pod didn't even dare think of was that all 3 of us could attend university. my name is helga block store deluxe, and i run a firm in berlin. i'm also a professor of building construction at the technical university of franchise. his contract bookstore made her way through art and university commission to projects until she became self employed in 2013. at 1st, she made a name for herself by reconditioning existing structures, like the house calls were renovated, one family house from the 1960 s, with the gable roof, or the house for jose in northern berlin. the contrast with regina liveing or is major projects could hardly be any greater. they said a mood their distinctive and tend towards the abstract. that's what makes blocked or st building. and out in 2020, she took part in a competition of a weimar based organization. the classic shift on her entry was a temporary structure made of plywood and birch bark to bow off covers. it was an

unfair and i was cuz it is from the beginning, so to speak was to build an innovative structure of wood from and from the start, the contractor made it clear that i could experiment peterman income, who helga blocks. dorf developed the berkin house as a modern light colored addition to the existing historic walls of groups as borkin hoisin, which dated back to 1778. it was only a few 100 meters away from the plan site and weimar dennis monday, friday. and i have an estimate for vamps, is always the question when you're in a competition. if my, how much does the task relate to reality? it is. do you try right away to get everything right? or is there a type of provocative openness in the task and the way it's presented that tends more to raise questions i have for. * the play of shapes and materials is very

important to her design. * regina lighting is architectural office is in a real korean in the western part of berlin and occupies several floors. lessons adding was born, it wasn't all it is m building materials are something that play a really big role in our office. one, there are things i thought that recur again and again, there's an interest leitmotif that shows up repeatedly and is reconsidered and re conceived again. and again. tell us why this thing can show up as a metal lap on a large roof of the dime. the building is it can be transferred to a much smaller scale and this time in wood for a serpentine and then at the house, i'd say, because it's permanent that these leaves and the lights drawn in and reflect lights . sometimes it looks like a u. f o, but actually it almost looks as if it were always rarely can

a project be realised incomplete. accordance with the architect, concept competitions are often the eye of the needle. that designs must pastor i know sides of goes on the one hand as naturally the opportunity to get commissions without having to go to the rotary club or golf cloud. all of them boys regular lucia has put her mark on berlin's architecture like no other. after working as an architect in zurich and vienna, she was called to berlin in 2007. as the director of urban planning. she was responsible until july 2021 for competitions in the city and was a member of many selective committees. anyone who wanted to work on important projects had to cross her path at some point is just so busy me. i'm behind. oh, it's true that i don't just write a book or express a thought sonata afterwards. is there in stone? a word of glass or which has a lot of glass chiseled in one thing. so i really can't allow myself to make any

mistakes. and i just have to select the best project is to play act. all sorts of competitions are big opportunities for smaller architectural firms, but they're controversial. no demands like ever relative could to put it relatively . essentially, it's almost impossible for new offices to take part because the standards of the way they are in every team that you have to do for the competition you have to have built already bought. i'm was of whitman aguilar to play actin if you get an invitation, let's say for a town whole scene, you're supposed to have already designed 10 town homes. how's that supposed to work and not? and then you've got to show how much money you have that a number of who, any number of other things, that's a disadvantage for what? well, the laughter diversity and creativity just ends up going by the wayside. and the fantasy have heard from mr. bay, him monta is, is saw, it's likely true that most ingenious project architecturally that isn't the one

that wins, kenny eyes to quick given our brochure. but for those that have to implement it and it's the best choice the 1st day. why the skip did. there is a wonderful theories of discussions called ain't position with architecture i in them there's an interview with catherine who just that was the director of urban planning and basil of dec files. and in order to get out of the exclusivity of the golf club situation, said the image of this city is of that act great. when elegance versa that we should really open all commissions for public reading perfectly every one on or and without any kind of eligibility restrictions along with us. as you can imagine, i'd very much like to propose that to for our lucia, just that she reads it and understand what it can mean for a city that my name. my name is henrique i shawn. i'm an architect and architectural intermediary rica shorn was working for berlin city government in

1990. 1 construction was booming. buyers were hotly bidding for the many empty spaces in the unified city. it was a matter of millions or rica icons. boss was responsible for awarding contracts and because of this was the target of a deadly attack that still remains unsolved to this day. after his death, she left the sector. i shorn has maintained her links to architecture and is demanding a radical reconsideration of how contracts are given to promote the art of building design and diversity even to me that i'd like to see competition. competition show how diverse the world can be when different people plan things and take different approaches. young people, the elderly women, men, students, then you can get so many different ideas. everyone has a different perspective. it's sort of in the hands of fatal neighborhood. you can see what's being created back then people really got involved. you can tagging them rica, insurance office is located in berlin. tons of futile after world war 2, hundreds of thousands of departments needed to be built in and berlin,

shattered by war. in 1957. the government in the western part of the city held the international building exhibition known as inter bout for short. international architects were invited to design modern residential complexes. they are still standing today. ah, the process from concept to contract is long in rocky. when regina lighting her and her team are invited to a competition, the firms a very own competition department goes to work dylan. i glad answer, and we were invited to take policy, the competition for a cited alexander plaques and the 1st tall building. and we had, and i still think this to day a brilliant design and 1st place went to frank, frank gehry with a miserable hum center. i think it's catastrophic, truly is that in place went to our friend and acquaintance, young clothes and design was very good. we came in

a 3rd and we were still disappointed because 1st place was just given to an architect, frank gary who just has this big important name. and that was really a disappointment on really is disappointing. is that you really can't lay yourself underestimate these competition. having so much of your life, blood gets bent on them so much energy, then you really have to pull yourself together and somehow keep going. so that it's not all for nothing so much thought goes into it. that madness god, we've done so many competitions and we've won lots of them. but those designs don't get built either. it's just tedious sometimes. but it's natural the way it is. it's part of the deal and we just got to do it. yeah. mm hm. after that set back, she went on to another major project. she was invited to join in the competition for the new estrella tower and want it done that and that wasn't just a consolation prize. it was just so crazy that we want it after we had this

disappointment with alexander plat. we uncorked 3 bottles of champagne. it's true. it was such a buzz like walking on the cloud muscles. v of no, i can. we're berlin's 1st skyscrapers. the astral tower is said to be 176 meters tall. the city's tallest building. it will have $45.00 floors and they total surface area of 75000 square meters. there will be $800.00 hotel rooms and offices in it, plus an event center of parking garage, a restaurant, and a spot. the towers facade will be made of striking bleeds, of aluminum, and doing a competition where you pull all nighters and have a wonderful idea where it's apparently been understood what you're achieving with these concepts and giving something back to the world. how go blocks, dorff accepted the dare and submitted her beer can house to the competition and weimar. wow. so what did the jury think they were skeptical at 1st?

danver had clad as fitness materials ended on it and it became clear they thought we weren't serious about the birch bark. what i could still be diplomatic when i answered that we jacket, we knew that it was used to fill in grass saud route on finland and get but as the technology and it had nearly died out. and the question of whether you could use it on the other side of the i know with the light side, facing out as a facade in this case. that was simply a process of consideration and coordination that took mom was says in the end she prevailed. the last hurdle was cleared when the birch bark passed the materials test a year and a half later. and the building was standing on site. ah, and it looks just as the way we thought it was going to. the project wave is

between the pavilion and a proper building office. we tried to push it more towards the pavilion so that it looks like it was properly built. but at the same time as if it just landed there. right? ah, yeah, you sent us any right now or in the last phase for those and the outside looking in . there's not much to see for the architect, that's where a maximum of blood sweat and t is get filled in. because at the end, you naturally want to create the final 5 percent just as you imagined it and lose details on the edges or the colors or whatever that you can't just comfort out with 3 coats of paint. if you need to do it correctly all the way to the very end, it's kind of like michelin start cooking at the ceiling. you managed that. i don't know what's in the plan there to arrive. it's all plant, that's what we're doing with the ceiling. i don't think so. that's just terrible. my lot of pain to use the wrong type of mineral pain for this wall. so now the

ceiling. different from the wall. that's an absolute no go. no go. of course, sometimes there's a little meltdown when you get to cool, and the rain is coming in somewhere and you've got to sorted out immediately because you're anxious that there's been some sort of error in the design. after all, when you're building, it's always a question of lots of money. and it's clear that when you're spending a 1000000 on a building, you really can't have any mistakes. hold. i mean my a globe luca. i have my own firm in berlin, and i'm actually at the technical university of dom stamps. she's designed a multi florida, very special apartment building at crew 1st and casa $142.00 in berlin. yes, to vows to la, it's a stand as is neevadolla some toilet. i love standing here on the construction site because you think wow, if we could, someone is really building something that i that we drew law. on the other hand,

i'm a bit nervous when i come here, lola mog, that's because you're thinking, oh god, that hopefully they won't discover anything that i should have done differently unless there's something final about it and you really can't change it anymore. and that's why there's always a little bit of fear when you show up at the construction site. yeah. but actually when i really yes, it's fantastic of, i mean sometimes yeah, i've hosted blue transparent spaces, individual floor plans and quite unconventional around the edges. the 6 towers are pushed into each other and follow a gentle curve. the apartments inside have low and high areas. voice are 19 apartment las vegas. the floors are really difficult to count because as you can see, the levels on conventional like they are with other buildings. the idea instead is that none of the rooms have a consistent ceiling height. instead, you want to make more extreme spaces. you want very low spaces with

a ceiling height of 2 and a half meters, like an intimate nest where the kitchen is, where you sleep and in the bathrooms. you said the same time, every apartment has ceilings that are twice as high where people can gather together. it only takes a few minutes for her to cycle from her ambitious apartment house project to the eula sto, shack collection. the interior design is the result of a competition that you hunter, my grow broker, one in 2016. the eulley associate collection is one of the biggest collections of contemporary video art. it's housed in a building that dates back to the 19th sixty's. it's got lots of small rooms and is nearly entirely made of glass. so it's under the davis for hunger, the boy that how the idea of the cut and came to be that actually masters all of these challenges. it's a cut and that folds from the outside in via you actually have this bright space that you can withdraw into and sit down where you can study the catalog and very deliberately choose where you want to go. almost like at the movies. so you can

just relax and look outside as well. johan admire grow broker began to search for the unconventional and extreme and architecture. after graduating from the swiss federal institute of technology and zurich, she set her course for japan. as they are forever clear on soon i've been to lots of places in the world before i but when i got to tokyo i that was quite the shock . i thought it wasn't comparable to any place else that i had been with no of the city and that was really liberating though i was i had the feeling the japanese architecture han was so different under. there's something mysterious about it. so much has left openness and i found that very fascinating 1st in yoghurt in 2005, she applied for a job at the renowned at santa architectural firm of the award winning female architect kazoo yossi shima in tokyo, she intended to stay for 3 months those 3 months became 5 demanding years is lava.

i think the hardest thing for me and which of course was part of the deal was that i had absolutely no social contact. naturally. we always worked until 2 or 3 in the morning and then we went town and of late at night, allison up and that was may be the only contact you had at night in the bar. and the next morning you went to work again. does that well, that's fine when you're doing right when you're not. well, i think that it was kind of hard as an odd genevedes deborah, who say our deadline of antithesis of the profession is really quite deadline oriented. often outside is really don't get it pilot and if you go in and work in the competition department, and yes, that does exist tighter than you usually always busy there until 11 pm or later. this pressure is simply on every one and it weighs on them cuz i, i believe taking on the responsibility of shaping the society might not be everybody's thing you them on. so the pressure is high and there are very

precise ideas about what you need to succeed in architecture as well. he's been in that e t ha at the institutional a drum. this is missing into us that it's the architect, even the gray create act. there was a glitch about, you know, everything, all he take an art tegler is more like a heroic, so i me who acts day and night in really lives for their job want does my also in our free time up i did as a does monday travel architecture leap down, watch movies, about architecture, through the architect, read books, seal, and listen to music under spiritual, everything to further your architecture, he take to walk on gazette. this image has been handed down through architectural history, the cult of the genius as part of its legacy casting to her 1st is that as a reason why the stereotypes are so stubbornly persistent as of the girl mitchell, she gone. since the geometric figures, the terrace symbol of the rationality of masculine thought, in architecture,

a setting contrast to the emotionality of women was, that's why women were long labeled, incapable, actually. but that doesn't mean, and this is important, that there isn't a direction that women take, that we once other shapes and that women only build round things. they just make hills. and i dunno something like this. no, that's not my opinion. a toll. my women are also rational, but are often excluded from the conversations ago and of course, christmas. in 2010, johan maya grow braga, opened a firm with her partner, sam, share my ass, and they were immediately confronted with stereotypes than the following months. when a woman and a man have a firm together when automatically assa rows are ascribed from the outside to the tide, the view is that the man is the creative madman. and the woman is the lady in the background to ensure that every thought holds as it should and everything is in order so to speak. and that always drove me a little crazy because actually it was my,

the other way rang trust me. here on the caird, i'm a professor i studied with had always said very cynically, that husband, why the offices are always made up of a male architect of mediocre talent for me to sort out a very talented female architecture student should. and they ran the firm until it was clear how things were to the rules and then came the children and that a woman was out of the game anyway. oh eagles. the power and dominance of men has a wide ranging influence on women in the profession. sort with blackened, looking back clinic yesterday things were said when a woman was introducing a project project focused there. yeah. you're wearing a particularly pretty shade of legacy today if doesn't to which of course is complete or in appropriate an est. i can remember that all i did, tommy, you're simply ignore m theory with us in vic kizzy in harvey. ah verbena ris, a lecturer at the technical university of vienna has also had similar experiences.

as in london, i worked at also finished irma in london and humbled irma is a hamburg office and it still is some youngster among apartments back then. he had had for many years a partnership with william also in london. and there was a direct to there who oversold several projects, including ours. he was french and a chauvinist. when i look back on it, him, he just said i wasn't allowed to do specific things on this project. and they were significant things. although we the project leader and i was specifically assigned to the project to some voice, finishes wait, i guess it wouldn't the sort of the earth in my voice yet was the 1st time i noticed that it troubled me personally to personally and that there was actually a system to h in that office back then there were around 50 of us working there. all. and many of the women would go to the bathroom and cried because if different directors who actually forbid them to do certain things or treated the women poorly for wouldn't harm order. so then i went and took this as an opportunity and i thought perhaps

good and that's not how it's going to be. we're not just going to accept that with the kids. and i managed to have this director removed from the project and i was under 30 back then funding boy. actually looking back, i'm quite proud that i achieved that starting martin. i missed his case after as in many professions, the working reality for female architects is dominated by tough conditions. a private life with or without children can become a stumbling block for their careers. as an essence is not to eat, i nixa. the 1st thing is that it's a disaster on vaughan, when you actually perceive how few women are run architectural firms on their own, dorothy will fit on what all needs rethinking is how architecture in general works on any how people are trained. and i was what the career should look like on a completely fundamental level, as most gourne said to hear about that to happen skipped. and then there's the actual fact that if you don't share part of the child rearing within the family,

then you're out of the house. shampoo my good laugh. i used to always laugh about these people. he said that they were a d, j and a painter. and something else, look good now does. and exactly that happened. your mother married and you run this firm and your professor po for school them. i'd always thought that that wouldn't really apply to me. i was invited to be on your readings. i got a professorship very quickly and we had our children number the office worked despite all that because i had the great good fortune that i had someone who jumped off to my children at home. you have to be clear about that. that's how it's possible to have a korea statistics show that around 40 percent of the female architects in germany work part time while only 12 percent of their male colleagues do. what else besides flexible models for working hours as needed, so that women will finally be designing on a level playing field, a binding quota that ensures that positions are all filled with equal numbers of women and men. that hasn't happened up to now. martina bower,

the only woman in upper level management at bar colliding her knows how important it is that the profession take the initiative to meet women's needs. can i bytes more than we accommodate so many different possibilities as often, right? i working 3 days every 2 weeks and are having 1st monday that every month off, i think for the around 80 female staff members that we have. we also have a different situation of selfish people, but it's important and it allows women to combine they work with taking care of children will come if apply them. i know that for a long time, i actually believe that when you're good, you don't need a quota when you're good and you prevail, it's mostly. if you're enthusiastic, passionate and above all, if you're good and maybe even a cut above, sometimes it doesn't matter to him. once in the meantime though, the more i address this issue, the more i see that there is a structural problem between men and women. and it is and always has been that way and found it. i think it's actually in the fact that the profession has up to now

been dominated by men, wasn't because they were better, it was easier for them to succeed. while women by contrast weren't able to use their full potential. in spite of many structural barriers, women architects have developed strategies over the last years to prevail and they are conquering the art of architecture. bit by bit. shocked. sy in von d. c. knoxville directly headlines read, or the cities director. herb and planning is in over her head. i was very harshly criticized and hm. and they were quick demands for a strong hand voc gillian. i just learned that i needed to appear more confidence at pre. i needed to learn to master the right toe for giving orders and that you have to take on the issues surrounding power mom and not push them away. so most instead, si, fi you yourself muscle act. where you see these games for power and getting the gain yourself. osman all indecent coffee, go he in ocoee yet it have,

i was just the 30 when i was on my 1st construction site for i was the youngest in the smallest there. and the only woman that was that, so i knew that i was small and not significant. nish benoit and alba, but i was the architect and i was in charge of the side of that this out. and because of that, i knew i call our shop in the do the sodden hut. for me, it was simply natural that i was the boss shift. i wanted to both build and design things. now it worked, is that how you become the boston and women are chafing well known exhibitions, prestigious buildings and awards traditionally have great significance in architecture. they drive careers and they turn great names and even greater ones. men and women architects both become star architects, right? which kept us, he said, tightened his for by i think those days are gone as it is. that was just a phase in the history of architecture in which a few special personalities did special architecture respond i, i believe that it's been going in the direction of teamwork for quite some time and,

and it's well known now that only a team can produce good architecture hamano m t ma hm. i think the idea of it chrome completely wrong. it hurts how with the saved by the public. it damages architects because of these architects and there are only 5 habit, a so called the star architect. and they scoop up all the major projects that that's perceived externally. but society said that people, st buildings can only be designed by star architects. and of course, their men, men, men are men. armina. in july 2021. helga block star celebrated the opening of her spectacular structure, which is officially called the or lameness portal. the other half only worked towards that for a year long him, that's just crazy. this fits and if it takes a year and a half from winning the competition to the opening than you working for 2 years or a year and a half for a building that will be up for just 5 years, have yahveh and house does. hoover, then you ask yourself and consider whether that's in all right proportions. i

always find that it's worth it and the other sister slew and the stress and pressure of the past months are over. it's a good time for the architect to reflect and to feel her own work around her versus i display it a short is poetic, actually i'm how, what's behind the mystery of the building? i'm of har. galveston, that's a question. i believe that comes to you quite late, or maybe even after you've already left the place you are visiting. and then left my calmed auntie and i'm off and then it comes to again. and it makes you think about the fact that you are standing there on for like guns i am for uh huh. i know you just breathe in and out and look around it and make sure you're conscious of what actually just came in to be this vesta granted them recently, shavani chakrabarti completed a project for helga block stores as the architect in charge of construction. it's called house of all this room and features, light colors and large windows. there's

a bright space on the ground floor that's only divided by the stairwell. shavani chakrabarti describes the task these, this design and the structures that were chosen to be executed on the construction side. also that you now have is a smooth facade and don't see anything. so it all lose pretty soon. i was, i'm trying, in this case to implement helga blocks dos design just to she conceived it all. i don't like the construction workers distract me off to me when they say yes, but you could do it that way. we've always done that that way. and then i just like to my guns and say, you know, we're going to do it right to speak her. ah, ah, what has just been a vision up to now is the astral tower in berlin. but by 2024 it should rise above the city skyline. yeah. okay. i are. okay. you can see this chimney on the

right. this aspire you could say. and then to the left of it, after that it's the estrella. it just has to be really good. this building must be extremely good, was all buildings have to be good, but this one has to be insanely good. once is only good last it will be standing so alone. so writing focus line, and it will be so tall, 175 meters. well that's it. when you look around here and then it will be the tallest thing, not just here, but the tallest building in berlin, us history. but it's so alone, along with the group here at alexander plats, it might just disappear. so this here, it really has to be really, really good. then it says on campus and the good, do you enjoy the fact that it will be taller than the one at alexander plots? i know hosler, i'm alexandra blood in maybe a little whether established or young

and on their way as different as these female architects are. they share a number of things. they're closing gaps. they have their own visions and they seek solutions. they're breaking traditions and changing their field and they know from their own experiences what they need as they step up to change the world. if indeed, does this gun swanson should? i think networking is amazingly important. it's not just on a professional level, but just to make your presence found this present to ma huh. good, good thing about architecture is that you get better and better the old you of edible, respected for the, even that i have a ways to go yet hope in this, the next generation will be far more able to shine because we're the ones who have done the heavy lifting prepared the way so to speak are the space for us because voice mission and i'm already looking forward to these wonderful women that will come after and will have something to show a sighing home with

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