a big city and a beautiful city for many people these two notions stand separately but spanish architect to be you know how to make them gel he was chief architect boss alone designing its loop for the ninety ninety two olympics now cities across the world once are your to be able to create a vision of the future for them he's frequently in russia consulting with the authorities and viciously developing the city. but who serves baber it is moscow says it has everything to become a secure future now what is this edition of spotlight to get the answer. 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 you gave to help ease couple of years ago you said the following year 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 come you're here you're one of the best known architects a professor of architecture and you say you're not you rather interested in street junctions then in architecture. you know that. they're not crises that we have to in a war. very dramatic for for many people. especially for their field and then you know. i think half of the population of the planet live. in the moment. but i think i'll leave. the question that you are conscious there in important for the future. climate. the question on the part of our nation east but

really the city as a consequence they are get it's should be 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 a talking about. not that especially a salad but much more interesting in that moment in what is the responsibility of architecture in the battle of the future of cities. but a you had a possibility to practically rebuild re. your native city of birth alone how. before the olympics of nine hundred ninety two 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 a city of. 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 but this is true that the probably for the colorado for the. upper end of the four of a really only anyway and i think. through that very. start of the world giving them an end date is it's very important to america that i was and. immediately after of that of frank with they all but you know they're not actually paid it and then we are walking in the moment in the more probably it's in the talking about of. because we. model operation twenty cheap either way

but. immediately we see that the bronze obviously was a very large and then we embed and they only be gays as opportunity to train for the city and one of the top four major there are two or three points in that a formation very important in the city of what for now with the olympics the force is the russians who between the cd and the sea washed clothes practically. we proved very mild. mobility of the city and the most important words you may have been of war all been brought from the to the to the small ferment before the city became even bigger. which you ate before. before the only big not only but for one i was too coarse time around 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 the 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 too large to make a promise. 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 today and probably the first. two or reminder to try to change their visions of the city is the capacity for the mobility. and the case of moscow he said 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 i mean maybe in ten years was moscow probably to be call ups. maybe people think that is exaggerated but it is not what kind of collapse so the traffic collapse on our social data lab the lot of the collapse he's economical calatinus a consequence. and it's true that because. he's a bit clearer city by julie for today with the infrastructure that was the balance here in the plan of thirty five. finished by fifty the up but realize you had a seriously a very vibrant i mean of and then fortunately you have the metro. and you

have this model is the same point of infrastructure that the new york is a pretty color of his but he's really moscow and new york but for example you are not the barrel in the last twenty years nothing for the car and you had 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 trash but for a very new mobility the new mobility is not obligate. friedel mobility and you should be included in the new and the medical transport system for one hundred meters not of that to promote wall. and then necessarily

include in the park enough then main point for the mobility policy and you came back in the sense with 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. sparks in moscow they hate driving in moscow and they all talk about this collapse that there that we're facing but you a specialist you also talk about a possible collapse mert you say in your interviews that moscow is a perfect city to become the center they're hard on the vast territory between between the ngos shanel and the chinese see the capital of the whole continent what makes you so enthusiastic 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 in the man he's very important because if you are you came from a long on a new world or the two parties. you are a better lean now when you are i've more or less talk or i know this a better practically redish asian and you are i've practically to be in the middle of this area by the way the most important an idea from the study called point of view or in the bottom of the sheet or example if you see that maybe of the war and the more important number of those jobs for the battle and many minutes. what these days she did that even defied from the global point of view these enormous out there only possibilities moscow and then from my personal perspective the people of us to do it up we need to moscow strong we need something in the middle between shanghai. and then this is really clear and in the other hand the possibility to

are going to zero mosque or all the cities that border now and are very strong in the. last this kind of the g.c.c. is very important as a consequence i feel that their idea of the big mosque up i absolutely agree but another question needs even of the role of big mosque. should be again there all those cities in russia i disagree with these ideas that are not that many of them. on. the spot of zero six national yak rational that it. and this is another question but moscow is there more. with it but only the most suspect that they've grown want to see the in russia for that issue so as he was there i renounce spanish architect spotlight will do that shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us don't go. to

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welcome back to spotlight i am now here in of and just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is just that i said billy a renowned spanish architect and c.e.o. of the metropolitan agency buffalo and the regional. dr a civilian you mentioned new york he compared moscow to new york and saying and then lady you continued saying that moscow has a possibility to to to become a great a great city now. do you like eagle because well i mean i love seattle well atlanta is i like atlanta washington's 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'm going to visit as

a tourist. would you like to live in when i was really manhattan and sometimes many times i was teaching in jail when i was leaving jail i was a very very practically at seven o'clock in the afternoon to the never in my heart and it was 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 iran is the city of the old people you can go to manhattan and it's really female really as if you are born there because probably for the cinema for the leader for many respects anyway ok but so here. is a very interesting the brownlees between the battle for money. 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 there are you sure what should what should we do. so why should she be stopped driving is not dramatically. the problem of the metabolic infrastructure as it is specially the traffic infrastructures and because the level of the noise for example isn't that magic in the moment but if you are for. a very i when i was arrived today from a fan with a plane and i mean in terms of the cd. the quality of the architecture the dimension of the boulevards. and the geometry of the we were in a specially that relationship between the new and the. there is a very important german thing in architecture. this is very interesting but the duty infrastructures produce especially in the head of the five prime are very important and they made their on their bullet. and did this seven since the release of these buildings you know many many believes in moscow are very difficult to find

is the belief from moscow simple that the town hall of my heart that is very near and of the style of the many buildings here and i study and i am very interesting in the relationship between the sheets in the thirty's because of martyrs that was that they already got their architect not that they best was made much more important than i like to know what is there over the marshes here who are neither known for the shame 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 that i mean mention of 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 colonel and now you're leaving the kremlin there in the white problem. there white middle class families one of the most wonderful really didn't graduate in europe now but these two 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 and found leave. fifty percent muslims. but there are not any conflict. any problem that quotation in between is absolutely perfect he's the only exceeding the 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 verity i don't know what is that dick but i know more or less the president and the premier and especially to the mayor he's

very pragmatic but two 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 then these how it is very interesting in my opinion not only for the landscape but for the. they do fairly shoshone really in their fifties in russia was ready but upon their elective plan. we have barrier for many reasons a theme that the fun is very important to remind morning bought of and in the future and but especially the big capital of the city of a family of the people do you so do you think that it 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 school. now is different in because the scale. and now

confound his ability to call the opportunity with the other. two thousand and thirteen and one of the major way in the sprawl hit and in the same way that got thrown one hundred chains and you are the matter as a consequence of the olympics will be possible the same in the city of perth and i hope that was all i am not sure if you need sochi to be the same but the financial that's will be very positive for the city and then there are these problems that you have in this country so big people. see that all are subtlely of moscow and then i fiend change the mentality of the people understand that families can fan. noise in mutinies misery he may have more this opinion or one of many brands to the barrel of a new constellation of seats were not the only one c.v.

here is not a game moscow he's mostly here but he's necessarily course the nations who for example you know that you know this area more or less sure but you understand that this is quite fun. news. so you had the. summer. maybe not rise to two hundred kilometers of this not possible practical arrive really the the tran the rail none exist many times duran's i believe and then my question is absolutely necessary for in my opinion the failure a lot of the start of policies of the new metropolitan areas like that. invades in the or on the base of the higher speed rail but all the other said listen you mentioned the federal government good russia has always been

a very centralized country with a central government in central iraq and of the country now do you think really would you expect the government in moscow that it will want to establish another 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 have i.e. my opinion should be the not only of what needs to polish. economic policy should be very important that the federal government and the people understand that the the constellation of metropolitan areas in russia is absolutely necessary our needs not the game the center of power of moscow this is pretty clear that that for example there are no other guys but he clearly is not was in each. area this is but i feel the same is 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 inside same people so some people say that. it will destroy the this carline of the city but the other people say that every century is really viewing 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 efforts of catherine about this competition and then my problem is not the high bill that i and i feel that is possible absolutely the compatibility between the story. with the high buildings so you think that difference doesn't destroy the skyline of dollars. more for

obviously but i was again to deal with these anonymous buildings without very. why. this question about the 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 your social is very important and then in my opinion should be important in this 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 high buildings has finished in my opinion with this crash after this crash it should be much more important discussion about the substance about the substantive questions in the in the

believes are 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 alona 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 your advice and consent thank you very much thank you for being with us just a reminder that it will be back with more comments on what's going on in outside russia. say tuned and see in the next edition of spotlight. thank you.

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watched the er homes burn out a similar number have been evacuated as firefighters struggle to prevent the flames spreading arky sarah ferguson the varanus region one of the worst hit areas we've come here to the city of which in the last few days has really seen parts of it devastated by these fires that have been breaking out we're actually just fifteen minutes outside the city center four hundred seventy kilometers from most sky and we're in a village called must love which as you can probably seen beside me has had most of it completely destroyed by the fires the smoke really hanging very thick in the air and actually you can smell this all throughout the city at the moment with the heat and the smoke it really is quite intense and the people over fifty here left wondering what they're going to do you know we've had throughout central russia around a thousand times have been destroyed by these five leaving around three thousand people homeless not heroin for an issue.