for many people these two notions stand separately but spanish architect to be you know how to make them gel he was chief architect for barcelona designing its loop for the ninety ninety 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. but for serbs baber it is moscow says it has everything to become a secure future now watch this edition of spotlight to get the answer. hello mr as a billion 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. junctions than in architecture. and you know that. they're not crises that we have to. bury them i think 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 cities in a moment. but i think i'll leave. the question that you are considering important for the future. climate and these kind of the questions the part our nation east but as a consequence. yeah that's true the change in my opinion the direction of the of

the intent to an especially of the. studies and then this is the reason because i many times i talking about that not that especially a cherokee dead but much more interesting in that moment in what is the responsibility of architecture in the battle of the future of it as well but 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 it 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.

but rather a city of highways. that. for a variety of people the. is very important is not very very out of the people it's pretty i don't know why this is true that it probably for the call or fold of the. russian ality of the four of us really only anyway and i. threw that i also started to work in the movie by theme but an end date is it's very bottom to america that i was and in that we should but it is just immediately after of that of frank or with they all but you know they're not actually paid it and then we are working in the moment in the more probably it's in the will talking about of all when i opened because of model operation twenty cheap way by.

immediately we see that the brunt of it should be water very loud and then we embed and they only be gays as opportunity to four of the cd and one of the top four measure there are two or three points in that aforementioned very important thing to see if you're what for now with the olympics the force is that it actually should between the cd and the she grows back legally they said we proved very mild . mobility of the cd and the most important words in my opinion was all been bought for one and two the more from it before the city became even bigger yes it was during which you ate before. before the really big no one but for one i was too coarse. and then maybe one day and then today the seventy percent of the budget of economy of water on 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. you you promote you popularize the advantage of small and medium size 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 major problems. 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 born into or reminder to tried to change their visions of the city is the capacity for the mobility. and the case of mosque he said be clear in my opinion i remember that too with yasser vol i was talking about this question we think the chief had

a good feel for 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 it is not what kind of collapse so the traffic collapse of our social that allowed the lot of the collapse he said konami called calatinus a consequence. and it's true that because he said. he said very clear city by julie for today we the infrastructure that was the balance here in the brand of thirty five. finished by fifty the up by rail i had a seriously a year to five grand i mean 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 and 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 metal transport system for a one hundred meter it's not of that to promote wall. and then it is necessary including the parking nicely 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 less so. sparks in moscow they hate driving in moscow and they all talk about this collapse that 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 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 the answer 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 probably your political position you mean the position you live in the man is very important because if you are you came from a long gone

a new world or the two parties. you are a better leaner 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 beijing in the middle of this area by the way the most important minority are from the study called point of view or in the bottom of the sheet each one example if you see that maybe of the war and the more important number of those feel for the battle and many minutes. what these days she did that even defied from the lower point of view this enormous out there only possibilities moscow and then from my present perspective the people of europe we need to moscow are strong we need something 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 the. past and this kind of disease is very important to as

a consequence i feel that their idea of the big mosque up i absolutely agree but another question needs even these are you of the road. the again there all those cities in russia i disagree with these ideas that are not that many of the. fun. question i yak rational that it was the beach and this is another question but. is there more. with it but only the most suspect that they've grown to see the in russia for that issue so here's a i said 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.

straight as provided citizens with. kites a fool of. himself to put. the child. out of life. when the government seems to think. my plan. right. i'm going to be killing hundred ninety.

welcome back to the spotlight i am now going over and just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is just that i said below i renounce spanish architect and c.e.o. of the metropolitan agency but are flown a regional. doctor 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 live in going because well i mean i love seattle well atlanta's 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'm going to visit as a tourist. would you like to live in milan i was really my life and sometimes many times i was teaching in jail when i was leaving jail i was very very practically at

seven o'clock in the afternoon to the never in my heart and so it's laughable you think you're using a livable city as a livable place yes my heart in my opinion the most. rational she's in a war but it 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 bali for the cinema for the leader for many respects anyway ok but so. 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 are 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. what should she be stopped driving is particularly dramatically you solve the problem of the

made public infrastructure as it is personally the traffic infrastructures and because the level of that knowledge 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 brain and i mean in terms of cd there is the quality of the architecture the dimension of the boulevards. the germ of the of the river and especially the relationship between the new and the all the good that there is very important. in architecture. this is very interesting but the dude infrastructures produce especially in the event of the five prime are very important and they made their on their bullet. and they did this seven since the release of this building you know many many believes in moscow pretty difficult to find is the belief from moscow my heart that simple that the town hall of my heart that he really needed of the style

of the many buildings here and i. am very interesting in the relationship between the sheets in the fed it is because of martyrs that was that they already got their architect not out of your day they best was made much more important than i like to know what is there over the masses here who are neither not of 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 their own mere 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 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 religion project in europe now but these two that. 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 that quote is from in between is absolutely perfect he's the only exceedingly war in my opinion that these fifty fifty was in the same. way this is the first question and the second is that they feel that they're full of these of profound verily i don't know what is the argentine but 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 the city he's been in the other car on the cd easing the idea of the ball are then these hardy is very interesting in my opinion not only for the landscape but for the. they do fairly show surely in their fifties in russia was really brought up on their electric prior. shall we have barrier for many reasons a theme that the fun is very important to remind money bought of and in the future and but especially the big capital of the city of the families of the people do you still 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 school. now is different in because the scale. and now. the opportunity with the other. two thousand philippine and one of the major way in the it's probably hit.

in the same way that got thrown has changed and you are a matter as a consequence of the olympics will be possible the same in the city of perth and i hope so 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 that the people. see there all are subtlely of moscow and then. i fiend change the mentality of the people i'm understand that families have found and know what she needs nor the mutinies necessary he may have more this opinion one or many plans to the bell or new constellation of seats or not the only one t.v. here is not again moscow he's mostly here but he's necessarily course the nations who for example you know that you know this area model issue but you understand

that this is a fun. news. so you had the. summer . maybe not that right to two hundred kilometers of is not possible or practical you arrive really the tran the rail none exist many times duran's of billy and then my question is is absolutely necessary for in my opinion define a lot of 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 side listen you mentioned the federal government good to 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 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 in my opinion should be the not only order but needs the policy. economic policy should be very important that the federal government and that 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 then and i think that that for example there are no other guys but he clearly is no horse you need. 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 have heard i'm

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 this 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 you know if i shall have. 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 dollars. more for but i was again to deal with these anonymous buildings without very.

wide. this question about the this is the question because in one building of that you can. practically fifty thousand square meters and then from that p.v.t. point of view from the canonical of point of your choice 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 buildings finishing my opinion with this crash after this crashes should be much more important discourse 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 alone now back in one thousand nine hundred two but actually we just found out that he's the man who is behind 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 we'll be back with more comments on what's going on here in outside russia. stay tuned and see in the next edition of spotlight. thank you. hungry for the full story we've got it fixed the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on.

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a record breaking heat wave. toxic fishing chinese authorities struggle to treat thousands of files and chemical waste from a river that supplies fresh water and russia. protesters from. nazi soldiers in the baltic countries. live from our studios here in central moscow this is the twenty four day. at least twenty eight people have been killed in forest fires that continue to ravage central russia sweltering since the middle of june the country's in the grip of its most severe heat wave for one hundred thirty years four forces are still battling to contain the blazes in the last two days thousands of hard to watch their homes

burn and tens of thousands have been evacuated. first reports now from the region one of the worst hit areas. managing to get the situation under control after the last two days has seen a huge amount of destruction caused by these by as we visited the town of muscle of coaches one of the worst hit areas and some of the people who are living that find out how they were taping with the situation they could only watch helplessly at the firestorm that they made and one person's along this is the village of miles love about fifteen minutes from burnished. one of the places worst affected by the fires that have left many of the completely destroyed. the fire wasted no time flames leaping from building to building incinerating eighty houses and making two hundred people homeless all within the space of a couple of hours.