capital of eurasia is it a fantasy or sensible evaluation we're about to find out. a big city and a beautiful city for many people these two notions. but spanish architect. knows how to make them gel he was chief architect for barcelona designing its loop for the ninety nine to two olympics now it is across the world once your to be here to create a vision of the future for them is frequently in russia consulting with the authorities and viciously developing the city of but across serbs paper it is moscow says it has everything to become a secure future now watch 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 he gave to el pais 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 he you 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. very dramatic for for many people that especially for their field and then. you know. i think half of the population of the planet live. in the moment. practically the. the questions that you are considering important for the future.

climate and these kind of the questions the part of our nation east but really the city and so consequently i get it's sort of the change in my opinion the direction of the of the architecture and especially of the. studies and then this is the reason because i many times i talking about that not that especially a heritage that but much more interesting in that moment in what is the responsibility of architecture in the barrel of the future of things well but a you had a possibility to practically rebuild re. your native city of birth load 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 city of. but rather a city of highways. for the russian people the. is very important is are very very out of you people are very i don't know why but this is true that the probably for the call or fold of the. actual knowledge of the fault of an entity only anyway and i. threw that i also started to work in the movie by the by far ninety eight is it's very bottom to america that i was and we should but it is just immediately after of that of frank or with they all but you know the model actually paid it and then. we are walking in

the mom in. the it's in the wood talking about of all what happened because with his model operation twenty other ways by. immediately we see that the browns obviously water very large and then we embed and they only be gays are supporting the beautiful of the city and one of the things for measure that there are two or three boy which were indeed information very important in the city of what for now with the olympics the forest is that actually see between the cd and the sea was gross practically they said we proved very minds. mobility of the cd and the most important words in my opinion was all been brought from the to the more from and before the city became even bigger was yours which you ate before. before the only big no all the pieces but for one i was to cost of around and then maybe one day and then today the seventy percent of the budget of

economy of water and eyes as a consequence of this of the tourist 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 to the capital to to launch major problems. i think there are two different questions in your question and 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 born into or reminder to tried to change 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 attitudes of moscow and i commend because of food because i mean maybe in ten years was moscow probably should be call ups. maybe people think that is exaggerated but this is not what kind of collapse so the traffic collapse on our social that allows a lot of the collapse he said konami called collateral as a consequence. and it's true that because. he's a very clear city by julie for today we the infrastructure that was the balance here in the land of thirty five. finished by fifty's the up

by rail i had a seriously a year to five grammys of and then fortunately you have the metro. and you have this model is the same policy of infrastructure that you your please recall of this but only as a rule in 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 the metro it is another kind of transport for a very 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 necessarily include in the park enough then main point four of the mobility policy and you have embodied in the sentence 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 specialist you also talk about a possible collapse mert you say in your interview is that moscow is a perfect city to become the center of the hob on the vast territory between between the ngos shanel and the chinese see the capital of the whole continent what may see some of the things they actually do why are you so many of the music.

is more about the important problem this is the traffic is to buy build your poly your political position on you mean the position in the man is 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 these are better practically redish asian 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 bottom 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 east a city that eventually five from the lower point of view this enormous out there only possibilities moscow and then from my present perspective the people of worsted europe we need to moscow stop we need. in the middle between shanghai.

and then this is really clear and in 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 and this kind of is he's very important to 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. should be again there all the cities in russia i disagree with these ideas that are not there any. on. some bit. rational that i know was the beach and this is another question but moscow is the more. with that but only the most suspect that if i want to see the international for that issue so as he does that i renounce spanish architect spotlight we'll be back

shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us don't go. to stadiums provided citizens with. heights of goods to sell to find it odd shufflers a chance. to laugh proud of my mum when the government sits tight. on my flat spot right. out of the killing everybody culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money and

it is a show me the people lot of people at various ways down a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling feat which is this a trend or simply freaky whether one. is going to be soon which brightened if you moon about sun from funds to pressure it's. nice for instance on t.v. dot com. it's.

welcome back to the spotlight i am now going of and just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is just that i said billy i renounce spanish architect and c.e.o. of the metropolitan agency buffalo on a regional. dr a civilian you mention new york who compared moscow to new york and saying and then lady you continued saying that moscow has a possibility to to to become

a great great city now. do you like new york because well i mean i love seattle well atlanta as 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 as a tourist. would you like to live in milan 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 today never in my heart and it was laughable you think you're using a livable city monotonous a livable place yes 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 delhi as if you are born there because bali for the cinema for the

leader for many respects anyway ok but so that is a very interesting the brownlees between the battle for my heart and. in the therapy. 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. let's watch it should we stop driving is not dramatically there you solve the problem of the metabolic infrastructure as a specially the traffic infrastructures because the level of the noise for example isn't 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. there is a very important german thing that an architectural. this is very interesting but the duty infrastructures produce especially in the head of the five prime are very important on the metro or the bullet. and it is said and since the release of these buildings you know many many believe she must come out of really difficult to find is the belief from moscow simple that the town hall of my heart and your opinion of the style of the many buildings here 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 they best was made much more important and he must have been. i like to know what is there over the marshes here at night along the same you know of but this is a question without resolve but they feel that the they are stupid is the

consequence of the brand of thirty five you mentioned because i mean mention of flying back from because i know you have been chosen by the government to. which is the capital love the tonto republic within the russian federation you were chosen as the man to to draw the new face of the city to 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 white girl and. their wife and is one of the most wonderful really didn't graduate in europe now but these through the fund 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. but there are not

any conflict. any problem there quotas from in between these absolutely perfect he's the only exceeding a 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 bad that you know more or less the president and the premier and especially to the mayor he's very pragmatic career thief two and then especially the mayor is really younger and then a feeling that the possibilities of this city. and in the other car on the cd 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 share surely in their fifty's in russia was really brought up on their electoral. shall we have barrier for many reasons a theme that the fun is

a very important remarks morning both of and in the future and bad especially the big capital of the city often is that people do used to do you think that still has the opportunity while it will be growing. to evade the mistakes made by made by the people who built. now is different and because the scale. and now. the opportunity with the other. two thousand and thirteen and i am working my way in the spirit and in the same way that both are on one hundred change and you are the 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's 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 that all are subtly of moscow and then. i fiend that change the mentality of the people and understand that a fan. noise in return is necessary he may have a modest opinion one or many plans to the bell or new constellation of c.d.'s or not the only one cd here is not again moscow he's mostly here but he's necessary course to nations who for example you know that you know this area more or less sure but you can understand that this is quite fun. news. so you had the. summer. so maybe not rise to two hundred kilometers and this is not possible practical your life really the the tran the re not exist many times

duran's i believe and then my question is is absolutely necessary for in my opinion that defining 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 to russia has always been a very centralized country with a central government and central are ruling. 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 happen i.e. my opinion should be there not only on what needs to 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 not their game the center of power of moscow this is a pretty clear line and i think that for example there are no other guys but he clearly is not or she needs. the uk 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 st 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 in 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. history call you because i was called by one of you know first of all after on about this competition and then my problem is not the high bill that i and i seen 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 us equally but i was again to deal with these anonymous buildings without very. why. this question about that but all of this is the question because in one building of that you can put practically fifty thousand square meters and then from that people you know view from the going to make it a point of view on social issues very important and then in my opinion should be imported on this cause we teach that is the problem and what is the functionality

of this building not only the discussion about the about the fall then. they have these discourse about the discussion between the high buildings as finishing in my opinion with this crash after these crashes should be much more important in the schools about the substance about the substantive questions when they're in the buildings i'm not in the four years that our civilian our guest today in the studio spotlight the man who we invited here to spotlight because he thought he's the man behind the rebuilding of paris so low now back in one thousand nine hundred ninety two when actually we just found out that he's the man who is behind all that happens in russia everything build 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 and

outside russia. say tune and see in the next edition of spotlight time thank you.

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. twenty eight people have been killed. breaking heat wave. poisonous leak chinese authorities struggle to retrieve thousands of barrels of dangerous chemical waste from supplies freshwater. defense. protesters from entering. the country. welcome to the program well at least twenty eight people have been killed in forest fires that continue to ravage central russia since the middle of june the country

is in the grip of its most severe heat wave for one hundred thirty years in the last two days about three thousand people have had to wash their homes burn a similar number have also been evacuated. reports from the. one of the worst hit areas. we've come here just about fifteen minutes outside the city center of an issue it's been badly hit by the fires in the village of muscle and most of the homes destroyed by the fires they seen in the past days the smoke really being very very thick and yet you can smell it even in the city center and this is all that's left a huge number of people we've been speaking to the locals here and they were saying this all happened very quickly. very strong like you. define. devastating speed be trying to stop it but it was catastrophic we couldn't do.