from the usa of texas, but the capsule failed to separate from the booster. pausing a huge gloss. that's all for me up. next is a d w documentary smashing of the glass ceiling. focusing on women oct. get out for us in berlin from me and the news team here. thanks for watching. ah ah, and you tag a special hotspots in germany, europe and the world

d. w. travel extremely where in the east been i? michelle kate, i actually became an architect because i thought right line without house that i'm making a better wealthy. it's been my husband are close out on. oh, i grew up in my grandparents house off and i thought that house is like tree this one until my mother tells me no. my people made them mention and then i wanted to do on board is just to architect to build the world. we live in elegantly, uniquely masterfully.

ah, doing architecture, you do it to 100 percent. oh not the tool to for unfolds. a lot of responsibility. you can lose a great deal. architecture is a tough field for women who built the inside and se guessing the decision makers and those that give out the contract. we are mad with the architecture works under this conditional framework, so to speak, work in law. hi, 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 prize. along with a deed worth, as do you say she might even for l and shelley, matthew mera and on like i don't 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 to solve, 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 faced of barco light being in berlin many regina liveing or is one of germany's best known female architects. her buildings range from a kindergarten to industrial structures, all the way to pavilions that seemed to glide on air. her latest project is the b hub in the berlin district of frederick's time cards, back time for a site visit. that is a dis building. is this hopefully cold? was it a full kind of tree? i don't belong to a glass point factory when descending. won't agree. but converse diss, and i think i see all this around here is super co raglin living just beyond that one. now i think myself on it's of the home. it's been up front as the homeless. oh good. a great location in frederick island, indies. and on the other side as the f bomb, and then this just the she a length of the building, it's enormous genome. 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. bessie sneak him with what these corners do. and with the layering that these elements mean it doesn't look like one single loan buildings. instead, it's like 6 different buildings. oh yeah. and that's important with the length of 300 me to him from. i mean of me. architecture can do so much if it moves util. levine, it adds beneath and now or i

did. yeah. i think i just always find it amazing when you can stand somewhere up high in berlin. you tend to miss the hills that folks in southern germany listing and 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 i am. it comes to thinking it was an festival, 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 there because i learned from when i was small and i saw how it works and i have a certain gene you could say to do this sort of 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 and i wanted to get away as fast as i could. i wanted out of this very protective environment. it like every shoot, got girl at 1st i went to get one unit class, but then i ended up in berlin by chance. and that was like going abroad for someone from stuttgart. it felt like a foreign country liveing her winter berlin's technical university and took courses in building construction and structural physics. but that soon took her to even further places. often happy i applied in america and was accepted at harvard, mom and i'll admit i was nervous cb, and it is when just well hobbit is a very good school and it comes this quite a reputation naturally with me. but that pays off that there are fantastic teachers, lack in math, but still they were mostly men on taught. same femina,

far more men than women. what regina liveing or became acquainted with in the 1980s, was no exception. while studying kirstine do her for had to do without heroines, she could use to orient herself. her fellow male students didn't have this problem . i talk all 3 of i took option was always wore a bow tie, kaufman and local boucher had leased the glasses with dark frames and all the student body. the men were divided into the ones who wore the glasses and on the ones who was both times talking or do you then you knew right away who their role models and they emulated them. i thought the women's students didn't have anything like that said you still dentist? ah, robina wrist is researching the history of women in architecture. the experience is described by casting do herfer are of no surprise to her 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 team? 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 much in october. i knew exactly how things looked back then. even though a lot of it was in disrepair, but that was a great experience news for she bonnie chakrabarti. the visit to eileen gray's villa was important, decisive even in france. the nic for below when women have to few role models from the start than an element of identification is missing. therefore it's easier for men. after all, in the whole of architecture education, m 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 are met her leader, partner and husband frank barco. i was, i had my have a 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 he 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 an architect 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 that are gant you in structure of concrete, in glass provided at home for more than 20000 tropical plants,

monumental in style. it was located on a former military firing range at the city's edge. more prestigious projects followed, including one for the southern german family business. trump. well done, and then was a no time we were being allowed to build in berlin on the most varied upside down. really different neighborhoods and of course, surroundings play a really big role in those cases. how bad the central train station in the rope, a city, for example, you would do different things than you would in the crates. bag district where you find well developed quite a bag, loft architecture, loft stretches, or imprints our bag in a back courtyard. on corvette architect helga block stores. life story was filled with challenges. now she's conquered, the art of building the mainland event. kate, ems out. what does she place? you know, how people go through life 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 commissioned projects until she became self employed in 2013. at 1st, she made a name for herself by re conditioning, existing structures, like the house calls were renovated, one family house from the 1960s, with a gable roof or the house for a day 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 building stand out. in 2020, he 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 bo, of god of ours,

a to them from. and i was told from the beginning, so to speak was to build an innovative structure of wood from, from the start of the contract and made it clear that i could experiment men in come, how good block start developed, the beer can house as a modern light colored addition to the existing historic walls of groups as borkin . hi sin, which dated back to 1778. it was only a few 100 meters away from the plan site and weimar dennis in monte flag in a have and his vet develops this always the question when you're in a competition, how much does the task relate to reality? do you try right away to get everything right, a tv or is there a type of provocative openness in the task and the way it's presented the tense, more to raise questions, hung half world moved. * 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, causing in building materials are something that play a really big role in our office. on there are things i thought that recur again and again, if there's an interest, a leitmotif that shows out repeatedly and is reconsidered and re conceived again. and again, may tell us why this thing can show up as a metal lap on a large roof of the dime, the building. yes, it can be transferred to a much smaller scale and this time in wood for a serpentine serpent. and then at the house, i'd say, because it's permanent, there, these leaves and the lights are drawn in and reflected. sometimes it looks like a u, f o, but actually it almost looks as if it were always there really can

a project be realised incomplete, accordance with the architects concept. competitions are often the eye of the needle. that designs must pastor i know site, of course on the one hand there's no a trinity to get commissions without having to go to the rotary club or a golf club. awful boys, regular lucia has put her mark and 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, as well as he 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 which has a lot of glass, chiseled imogen, 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, no one's like ever relative could to put it relatively, essentially it's almost impossible for new offices to take heart 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. bottom was whitman angle on to play actin. if you get an invitation, let's say for a town hall scene, you're supposed to have already designed 10 town homes. how's that supposed to work on now? 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 well enough. the diversity and creativity just ends up going by the wayside into fantasy have heard from mr. bay, him monta is, is saw, it's likely true that most ingenious project architecturally thick isn't the one that wins, kenny eyes to quick giving up

a few. but for those that have to implement it, it's the best choice the 1st day. why the skip did, there is a wonderful series of discussions called ain't position with architecture i in them there's an interview with carl canoe 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 that such great elegance that we should really open all commissions for public reading, roughly every one and without any kind of eligibility restrictions on this. 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 on rica. i sean, i'm an architect and architectural intermediary, or 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 shore and 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 in the hands of fatal neighborhoods. you can see what's being created back then people really got involved and 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 liveing her and her team are invited to a competition, the firms are very own competition department goes to work dylan. i glad answer. and we were invited to take out the competition for a sighted 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 gehry with a miserable home center. i think its catastrophic, truly, the 2nd place went to our friend and acquaintance. young klaus and design was written and that was really a disappointment on really disappointing what it is that you really can't let

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 billed high there. it's just tedious some time. 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, sir back she went on to another major project. she was invited to join in the competition for the new estrella tower and want it and then 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 plus. we unquote, 3 bottles of champagne. it's true. it was such a buzz light walking on the cloud muscles. v of no void can. where 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 come set him up and giving something back to the world. helga 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 fittest material is ended on it and it became clear they thought we weren't serious about the birch bark. that i could still be diplomatic when i

answered that we jacket as 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 mumbled system. 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 well you thought it was going to show 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,

his interests as any right now or in the last phase for those and the outside looking in there is not much to see the architect. that's where a maximum of blood, sweat, and tears 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 is covered out with 3 codes to paint. and you need to do it correctly. all the way to the very end. it's kind of like michelin start cooking, the ceiling. you managed that? no. i don't know what's in the plan there to arrive. it's all planned. that's what we're doing with the ceiling. i don't think so. that's just terrible. and then my last pain to use the wrong top of mineral pain for this wall. so now the ceiling looks different from the walls. that's an absolute no good, no go. of course sometimes says a little meltdown when you get a cold and the rain is coming in some way 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 is always a question of lots of money as a 2nd, and it's clear that when you're spending a 1000000 on a building, you really can't have any mistakes. pip, i'm behind in my a globe luca. i have my own salmon berlin animal lecture at the technical university of dom stub snip. she's designed a multi florida very special apartment building at crew 1st in st fossa, at $142.00 in berlin. just a vows to learn, sustain as is neevadolla some tal. i love standing here on the construction site because you think, wow, if someone is really building something that i, what we drew law on the other hand, i'm a bit nervous when i come here hallmark, that's because you're thinking, oh god, that hopefully they won't discover anything that i should have done differently. love the 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 them really yes, it's fantastic of eiletha on 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. noise though, 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. so the idea instead is that none of the rooms have a consistent ceiling height. instead, you want to make more extreme spaces that 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 stow 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 19 sixty's. it's got lots of small rooms and is nearly entirely made of glass or is sunday, the davis 4 hung a blank. 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, and 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 am i, a gro brooker began to search for the unconventional and extreme an architecture.

after graduating from the swiss federal institute of technology and zurich, she set her course for japan. as they are for reckless 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. and 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 the feeling the japanese architecture han was so different under. there's something mysterious about it. so much is left open mouth and i found that very fascinating fuss in yet hurt in 2005, she applied for a job at the renowned at santa architectural firm of the award winning female architect kazoo yosi shima in tokyo, she intended to stay for 3 months, those 3 months became 5 demanding years as lover. i think the hardest thing for me and which of course was part of the deal was that i had absolutely no social contact it naturally we always worked until 2 or 3 in the morning and then we went

town and of late at night, our center 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 this and that's fine. when you're doing right when you're not, well, i think that it was kind of hard as in hot. mm. genevedes deborah jose, our deadline of antithesis to proficient 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 because 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 are, it's been in that e t ha, at the institutional they drums. this is missing into us. that it's the architect,

even the gray create act, dark or sickly about you know, everything or he take an art tag is more like a heroic. i me who acts day and night in really lives for their job want does my also in my free time off i did as with us monday, travel architecture, leap down, watch movies, about architecture, through the architect, read books, seal, and listen to music on your spiritual everything to further your architecture he take to war 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 terror symbol of the rationality of masculine thought in architecture, assessing contrast to the emotionality of women was that's why women were long labeled incapable. at least that doesn't mean, and this is important that there isn't a direction that women take,

that we want 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 conversation doesn't often of course, christmas. in 2010, johan maya, grow burger 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 thumb together when automatically at rose are ascribed from the outside to the tide. the view is that the man is the creative madman. even the woman is the lady in the background who ensures that in every thought holds as it should and everything is an 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 and wife offices are always made up of a male architecture of mediocre talent to sort out

a very talented female architecture student student. and they ran the firm until it was clear how things were to the roof 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. so click and 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 lucille today. different to which of course is i'm currently caught in appropriate an est, i can remember that when i did, tommy, you're simply ignore m 3 with us in vic kizzy in harvey. ah, verbena ris a lecture at the technical university of vienna has also had similar experiences as it were in london, i worked at all southern shed, 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 over. so several projects including ours. he was french and a chauvinist. when i look back on it, my 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 us 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 it 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 of different directors who actually forbid them to do certain things or treated the women poorly for booking. mm hm. okay. 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 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 bad starting martin. i missed his cash off top. 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 among 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 long contextual in general works on any how people are training hours, what the career should look like on a completely fundamental level as most gone 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. shut my glass, i used to always laugh about these people. he said that there were a g, j and a painter, and something else lincoln 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 some one who looked after my children at home. you have to be clear about that. that's how it's possible to have a kareema 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, skip can i by to what we accommodate so many different possibilities as often right?

i working 3 days every 2 weeks and are having 1st monday that every month golf, i think for the around 80 female staff members that we have. we also have 80 different situations as well, but it's important and it allows women to combine they work with taking care of children or com. if you don't like 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 that, 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 is 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're conquering the art of architecture. bit by bit. shark sy, in von d. c. nod, spout director. the headlines, red or the cities director, herb and planning is in over her head. i was very harshly criticized. mm hm. and they were quick demands for a strong hand and a fucking liam. i just learned that i needed to appear more confident pre. i needed to learn to master the right total for giving orders and that you have to take on the issues surrounding power mom and not push them away from most. instead, si, fi you yourself muscle act. when you see these games for power and getting the gain yourself, osman all indecent coffee, go. he in ocoee, you have, i was just the 30 when i was on my 1st construction site for i was the youngest in smallest there. and the only woman that was that, so i knew that i was small and not significant, much better than other,

but i was the architect and i was in charge of the sales at this out. and because of that, i knew i call our shop in the do the sarten hut for me, it was simply natural that i was the boss shift. i wanted to both build and design things. now it's worked, is that how you become the boss 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 up just, he said tightness 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, arizona. i believed that it's been going in the direction of teamwork for quite some time, and it's well known now that only a team can produce good architecture. hamano m t ma hm. i think me idea of it's wrong 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 i saw it. he said that people st buildings can only be designed by star architect, fallen and of course their men men, men are men. armina. in july 2021. helga black 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 along 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, and that will be up for just 5 years. have you out of here in house this from here, then you ask yourself in, consider whether that's in all right proportions. i always find that it's worth it and there were 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 harvard lavished. 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 law calmed anti and our mouth and then it comes to again. and it makes you think about the fact that you are standing there on for like guns i infer. huh. i know you just read the in and out and look around it and make sure you're conscious of what actually just came into being 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 oldest through 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 site. also that you now have this smooth facade and don't see anything. so at all

lose procedure and out i'm trying, in this case to implement helga blocks dos design just to she conceived it all i did the construction workers distract me off 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. or josh, ah, what is just been a vision up to now is the estrella 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. so for that as the estrella it just has to be really good. equal to this building must be extremely good was all buildings have to be good but

this one has to be insanely good, unceasingly. 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 with them as long person. they're gonna do enjoy the fact that it will be taller than the one at alexander plots. i know hosler i'm, i'm a kind of lead 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 are with edible, respected for the even that i have a ways to go yet. 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 on this bid for a supervisor voice me. and i'm already looking forward to these wonderful women that will come after and will have something to show us. i can come with

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