however you are not allowed him to spotlight v.m. to say. today my guess is that pass a bill. that in nine hundred ninety two he transformed. into real olympic capital turning it from an aging city into one of the most vibrant and modern cities in europe he claims now that moscow can and must develop into a state of the our capital of eurasia is a fantasy sensible evaluation we're about to find out. a big city and a beautiful city for many people beast two notions stand separately but spanish architects. know how to make them gel he was chief architect for barcelona designing its loop for the ninety ninety two olympics now cities across the world once your to create a vision of the future for them is frequently in russia consulting with the

authorities who are developing the city of. paper it is moscow says it has everything to become a secure future now which this edition of spotlight to get. closer . and thank you very much for coming to our program thank you. first of all i want i have a quote when one of the interviews he gave to. couple of years ago he said the following quote i'm an architect with little interest in brilliant works i'm in favor of finding solutions to street interceptions that don't work well and quote so. how can he you one of the best known architects a professor of architecture and you say you're not you rather interested in. junctions than in architecture. and you know that.

they're not crises that we have today in a war is barely them i think for for many people and i think that especially for the good that you are feel and then you know. i think half of the population of the planet live in the cities in the moment. but i think i'll leave. the questions that you are considering important for the future. climate and these kind of the question on the part of our nation east but really the she has a consequence they are good that's true the change in my opinion the direction of the of the architecture and especially of the. studies and then this is their vision because i many times i talking about that not especially a targeted but much more interesting in that moment in what is the responsibility of architecture in the barrel of the future of it as well but you had

a possibility to practically rebuild re. your native city of birth load help. before the olympics of nine hundred ninety two and you made a lot you made it more livable more open a new streets new junctions new highways tunnels and so on so forth but. probably for tourists for people like me who come to live and work there it is fun but for those who live there do you think it's good like it's no longer. but rather a city of highways. for the russian people the. is very important is what every one of the european people is very i don't know why he went this is true that it probably for the call or for of the. nationality of

the form of a potentially only anyway and i think. through that i was started to work in the mission for ninety eight this is very important to america that i was. immediately after of that of frank with a open. no they're not actually paid it and then we are walking in the moment in the more broadly it's in the we talking about of thing. because we feel as moral operational twenty other ways by. immediately we see that the brands of as he was a very large and then we embed and they are the big gays are supporting the beautiful of the city and one of the top four major there are two or three ball in india information very important indices of what for now with the olympics the force is that actually between the cd and the sea was close practically. we proved very

minds. mobility of the cd and the most important words you may have been of was all prim but flown out to the mall from and before the city became even bigger yes it was you which you ate before. before the only big no one but for one i was too of course. then maybe one day and then today the seventy percent of the budget of the economy of water on eyes as a consequence of this of the two least well one of the problems here in moscow capital of russia is that the city is really overcrowded traffic jams world where lots of problems you as an architect you you promote you popularize the advantage of small and medium sized cities you think that people should be developing cities towns and cities like that but how can we do that if there is no economic incentive for people to live in small towns everybody wants to move to to the capital to two

large make a palace. i think there are two different questions in your question then fares is that about the dimension of the city but without talking about the squares you are true that they are probably the first point all reminder to tried to check their visions of the city is the capacity for the mobility and the case of moscow be clear in my opinion i remember that two or three years of all i was talking about this question within the chief of moscow and i commend because of food because maybe in ten years was moscow probably should be call ups. maybe people think that is exaggerated but it is not what kind of collapse so the traffic collapse are social

that a lot of the a lot of the collapse he's economical calatinus a consequence. and it's true that because he said. he said very clear city by julie for today with the infrastructure that was the balance here in the brand of thirty five. finished by fifty yard by real life better seriously a year five grammys of and then fortunately you have the metro. and you have this model is the same point of infrastructure that the new york is really quite useless but only to really moscow and new york but for example you are not the barrel in the last twenty years nothing for the car and you are increase your number of cars in moscow absolutely and you we arrived to the same proportion that the rest of of europe and then in that moment you have in my opinion many

difficulties is very important introduce you may have to leave the problems of the . not only public transportation especially transport on the month is not that may throw it into another kind of transport for of the new mobility the new mobility is not obligate. friedel mobility and you should be included in the new and the method transport system for one hundred meters not of that to promote wall. and then it is necessary including the parking lot in main body in front of the mobility policy and you have embodied in the centers muscovites i would say you are pretty pessimistic about moscow these days they don't like the air they breathe they don't like the water they drink they don't like the third lesson. sparks in moscow they hate driving in moscow and they all talk about this collapse that that

we're facing with you specialist you also talk about a possible collapse mert you say in your interviews that moscow is a perfect city to become the center there hard on the vast territory between between the anglo channel and the chinese see like the capital of the whole continent what may see some of the things the ending to why are you so i'm very optimistic why do you have one small but important problem this is the traffic is to buy your deal poorly your political position you mean the position you live in down in the man is very important because if you are you came from iran on a new world or there are two parties. you are a barely in when you are i've more or less talk or i know this a better practically everybody station and you are i've practically to beijing in the middle of this area by the way the most important an idea from the study called point of view or in the border of the sheet each one example if you see that made

of the wall and the more important number of the year for the battle and many minutes. what is the city that even the five from the lower point of view this enormous out there only possibilities moscow and then from my personal perspective the people of worsted europe we need to moscow strong we need. in the middle between shanghai. and then this is really clear i mean the other hand the possibility to organise you are almost all the cities that border now are not a very strong in their. own arsenal this kind of this he's very important to as a consequence i feel that their idea of the big moscow i absolutely agree but another question needs even a year of their global a big mosque. should be again there all those cities in russia i disagree with these ideas that are not there me. the fun. bit is.

crash nayak rationale that it was the beach and this is another question but moscow is the mars. with the probably the most suspect that they've grown in russia for the next year or so as he was there. are renowned spanish architects spotlight will be back shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us there we go. state has provided citizens with. heights of goods to sell to find

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it works is i. was little. little little. welcome back to the spotlight i am now going out of and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is just that i said billy-o. i renounce spanish architect and c.e.o. of the metropolitan agency barcelona regional. dr

a civilian you mentioned new york he compared moscow to new york and seeing it and then lady you continued saying that moscow has a possibility to to to become a great great city never. do you live in england because well i mean i love seattle well atlanta is i like atlanta washington is ok but new york city i really hate it well i think it's no place to live in i mean i live my heart and well it's not the same as i was a little visit as a tourist. would you like to live in mid-air i was really manhattan sometimes many times i was teaching in jail when i was leaving jail i was already very practically at seven o'clock in the afternoon to the never in my heart and so it's laughable you think your use a livable city monotonous a livable place yes my heart and in my opinion the most. rational she's in a war but is the city of the old people you can go to hide them and it's really

female at the lee as if you are born there because probably for the cinema for the leader for many respects anyway ok but so bad it's a very interesting the brownlees between the battle for my heart and. in the therapies and that mosque is really cool so so so you drawing these parallels professor you want to say that it still is possible to make moscow a very livable city a nice city to live in the are you sure what should what should we do. that's what you should be stop driving is not dramatically there you solve the problem of the metabolic infrastructure as it is personally the traffic infrastructures because the level of the noise for example is at that magic in the moment but if you. use a very i when i was arrived today from a fan with

a brain and i mean in terms of the cd there the quality of the architecture the dimension of the boulevards. the geometry of the river and especially the relationship between the new one that. all that good that there is a very important german thing in architecture. this is a very interesting judy infrastructure's produce especially in the head of the fife plan are very important and they made their on their bullet. and did this seven since the release of these buildings you know many many believed in moscow are very difficult to find is the belief from moscow manhattan simple that the town hall of much higher than here in the near of the style of the many buildings here and i. am very interesting in the relationship between the cities in the thirty's because a lot of martyrs that was that they already got their architect not out of your day they best was made much more important than he might have been i like to know what

is there over the marshes here now i don't know if the same you know of but this is a question without resolve but they think that the they are stupid is the consequence of the brand of you mentioned because their own you mention flying back from because i know you have been chosen by the government. which is the capital of love the tonto republic within the russian federation you were chosen as the man to to draw the new face of the city. to do something some big structural something like you did to barcelona well what are you doing to are you leaving the kremlin are you leaving the kremlin there and the wife rather than. their wife and is one of the most wonderful really didn't graduate in europe know about this through that. he said. i can understand why it's not so important because you know that these are so big because it's near of two million people i think i found leave

. fifty percent muslims. but there are not any conflict. any problem their color would have been in between these absolutely perfect is the only exceedingly war in my opinion that these fifty fifty walking in the same. way this is the first question and the second is that they feel that their full it is of profound barely i don't know what is that it but that you know more or less the president and the premier and especially to the mayor is very pragmatic. too and then especially the mayor is really younger and then a feeling that the possibilities of the city he's been in the other car on the city easing the idea of the ball are and then these heart is very interesting in my opinion not only for the landscape but for the. they do fairly share surely in their fifty's in russia was really brought up on their electoral. shall we have

barrier for many reasons i think that the fun is he's a very very much more important in the future and bad especially the big capital of his he often is that people do you say do you think that still has the opportunity while it will be growing for the two to evade the mistakes made by made by the people who built all sco. now is different in because the scale. and now. the opportunity with the other. two thousand and thirteen and i am working my way in the it's probably it. in the same way that both are on has changed and there are a matter as a consequence of the olympics will be possible the same in the city of perth and i hope. i am not sure if you. will be the same but the financial that will be very

positive for the city and then there are these problems that you have in this country so big that the people. see there all are subtlely of moscow and then. i fiend change the mentality of the people and understand that fan. is noisy mutinies necessary in my modest opinion one of many plans to the barrel new constellation of c.d.'s and not only one t.v. here is not a gay in moscow he's more stay here but he's necessary course to nations who for example you know that you know these are your moral issue but you can understand that this is quite fun. news. oh yeah the. some. maybe not that right to two hundred kilometers of isn't possible practical

arrive really the the plan the re not exist many times duran's i believe and then my question is absolutely necessary for my opinion that the further along the start of policies of the new metropolitan areas like that. in days in the or on the base of the higher speed rail but all the other said listen you mentioned the federal government but russia has always been a very centralized country with a central government in central iraq. of the country now do you think it really would you expect the government in moscow that it will want to establish their huge metropolitan area as big and as powerful as moscow in the qur'an to react to some or do you think this is this may happen i.e. my opinion should be the not only what is the policy. economic

policy should be very important that the federal government and that people understand that the constellation of metropolitan areas in russia is absolutely necessary i need not to gain the center of power of moscow this is pretty clear then and i think that for example there are no other guys but he clearly is not or she needs. kashmir this is what i feel is the same so much fun to listen to you but we were assured sometimes i would ask you a couple of questions i should ask you as an architect well listen i have heard i am sure about this controversy in st petersburg about the skyscraper that they want to build a sign saying booboo so some people say that. it will destroy the this carline of the city but the other people say that every century is leaving its landmarks so let the twenty first century leave leave its landmarks to what would you say are

you the favor of those who want to save the city as it is or are you in favor of those to say the twenty first century twenty first century. these very core you because i was called by one of the dangers of half pranayama this petition and then my problem is not the high bill that i and i seen that is possible absolutely the compatibility between the historical city with the high buildings so you think that difference doesn't destroy the skyline of dallas. morphologically that i was again to deal with these anonymous buildings without very. wide. discussion about this is the question because in one building of that you can put practically fifty thousand square meters and then there from that

p.v.t. point of view from the canonical of point of view are social issues very important and then in my opinion should be in part of a nice cause. and what is the functionality of this building not only the discussion about the about the far then. this discourse about the discussion between the. finishing in my opinion with this crash after this crashes should be much more important discourse about the substance about the substantive question seen there in the billions and not in the four years that as a bill you are a guest today in the studio spotlight a man who we invited here to spotlight because he thought he's the man behind the rebuilding of paris alone now back in one thousand nine hundred two but actually we just found out that he's the man who is behind it all that happens in russia revealed in russia is built with the advice and consent thank you very much thank

you for being with us just a reminder that we'll be back with more comments on what's going on in and outside russia. say tuned and see in the next edition of spotlight. thank you. they say still this is not a provocation but war. executives just everybody is sure to support the troops because they have no idea about the hardships the baby face. wanted this is it all go to new sins or in the army the life level you see is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and terrorism with those who understands it

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peaceful searching the morning in the russian capital the says i'll see the headlines. twenty five people have died and scores have been made homeless after raging wildfires in russia's record breaking heat wave an official state of emergency has been declared insulting regions across the country with around one thousand pows burns to the ground in front of destroyed residents. also emergency crews are scouring the song who are even china the barrels of highly toxic chemicals which could reach russia into. the sun thousands of containers were swept away during severe flooding. alan jones fair more criminals can soon be living in their communities as the european court of human rights buys the

continued detention of some convicts heaters dangerous after their sentences that. those are the headlines up next our special report on kurdistan a central asian country where ethnic tensions dating from the one nine hundred thirty s. recently turned violent claiming hundreds of lives. has long been kurdistan's national color at one point the words could be used and rather even member the same. on the national flag is the law says. the golden sun in the sun church represents one asked for eternal life.