today my guess is that pass a bill you like and 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. a big city and a beautiful city for many people these 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 nine to two olympics now cities across the world once are your to create a vision of the future for all that 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 beyond. 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. couple of years ago you said the following i 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're one of the best known architects a professor of architecture and you say you're not you rather interested in street junctions than in architecture. you know that. then. we have to him. betty there are magic for for many

people rather than a feeling that especially for their kids that you are feel and then you know. i think hard for 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 each back mr consequence they are gets to the change in my opinion the direction of the of their potential and especially of the. studies and then this is their vision because i many times i talking about that not that especially a charity 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 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 a city of. but rather a city of highways. that. for the russian people of the. is very important is what every one of the european people is very i don't know why this is true that it probably for the chorus of four of the. nationality of the four of a parental the only anyway and i. threw that i also started to work in the

movie by the marathon in the eighty's it's very bottom to america that i was and in the music but it is just immediately after of that of frank or with a open. no they're not 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 little as model operation of twenty other ways by. immediately we see that the browns obviously get water very loud and then we embed and they only be gaze as opportunity to four of the cd and one of the top four make sure that there are two or three boys and indeed information very important in this issue of what for now with the olympics the force is that actions between the cd and the sea was close back literally they said we proved very minds. mobility of the cd

and the most important words you may have been of was all be in buffalo not to the mall from it before the city became even bigger how do you know which you ate before. before the only be no one but for one i was too course. and then maybe one day and then today the seventy percent of the budget of the economy of butter 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 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 they are probably the first born into all reminded to try to check 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. moscow probably should be call ups. maybe people feeling that is exaggerated but this is not what kind of collapse so the traffic collapse on our social that allowed the lot of the collapse he's economical calatinus they want

trust. and it's true that because. he said pretty clear city by julie for today with infrastructure that was the battle here in the brand of thirty five. finished by fifty the up by rail i had to finish the area you have a five grand i mean of and then fortunately you have the metro. and you have the model is the same point of infrastructure the new york is really quite useless but only has a route 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 i knew we had 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 domestic transport system for one hundred meters not of it to promote while. and then it is necessary including the park enough then main point for the mobility policy and you have embodied in the sentence well 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 you are facing but you a specialist you also talk about a possible collapse but you said. in your interviews that moscow is

a perfect city to become the center of the harbor on the vast territory between between the ngos channel and the chinese sea like the capital of the whole continent what makes you so the things the answer to why are you so very dull to music and why do you have. a small but important problem this is the traffic is too by the ordeal polly your political position on you mean the position you live in them 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 lean when you arrive model a stalker i know this a better practically registration and you are i've practically to begin in the middle of this area by the way the most important idea from the study called point of view or in the board of the c.d.'s one example if you see that made of the war and the more important number of the year for the battle and many minutes. what

east a city that event a five from the lower point of view this enormous area there only possibilities moscow and then from my present perspective the people of us to do it up we need to moscow strong we need. in the middle between shanghai. and then this is a pretty clear and in the other hand the possibility to organise you are almost all the cities that border now are not ready or strong in the. past and how this kind of this 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 global a big mosque or should be again there all the cities in grass i disagree with this idea whether or not they me. and. some british.

rationale that it was the beach and this is another question but. moscow is the mars. with that but only the most suspect that if the in russia for that issue so as he was there i renounce spanish architect spotlight will be back shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us there we go. to russia would be so much brighter if you knew about someone from violence to

pressure these. stunts on t.v. don't come to vote for bush for the but. always adds by one vote for kerry vote for kerry so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right buttons he can flip the boat that he.

was right three weeks struggling. just. to. welcome back to the spotlight time out of and just to remind you that my guest in the studio today is just that i said i renounce spanish architect and c.e.o. of the metropolitan agency buy a flat in the regional. dr

a civilian you mention new york you compared moscow to new york and saying and then later you 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 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 my 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 today never in my heart and so it's laughable you think you're using a livable city as a livable place yes in my opinion the most. rational she's in a war but rather is the city of the old people you can go to manhattan and to leave

early as if you are born there because probably for the cinema for the leader for many which anyway ok but so that is 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. so why should she be stopped driving is not. really solve the problem of the metabolic infrastructure as it is personally the traffic infrastructures and because the level of the noise for example is at 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 in terms of the cd there the quality of the architecture the dimension of the boulevards. and the geometry of the river and especially the relationship between the new and all that good that there is very important. 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 through all of their bullets. and did this seven since the release of these buildings you know many many believed in moscow pretty difficult to find is the belief for a moscow sample 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 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 who night

long for the same you know of but this is a question without resolve but they think that the their stupid is the consequence of the brand of thirty five you mentioned because their own you mention flying. back from because i know you have been chosen by the government to which is the capital of love the talent or 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 colonel and now you're leaving the kremlin there and the wife rather than. their wife catherine is one of the most wonderful really didn't graduate when you look at these 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 an income fund leave. fifty percent muslims you know but there are not any conflict. any problems that quotation in between these are absolutely perfect he's 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 really i don't know what is that but you know more or less the president and the premier and especially to the mail he's very pragmatic but to and then especially the mayor is really younger and then a feeling that the possibilities of the city he's been in the other hand 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 share surely in their fifty's in russia was ready but upon their electorate. shall we have barrier

for many reasons i think that the fun is a very important remarks more than better than in the future and but especially the big capital of the city of families that people. do you so 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 confound his ability to call the opportunity with the other. two thousand and thirteen and one of the major way in the it's probably hit. in the same way that one thrown her 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 change the mentality of the people understand that families can fan. noise in return is necessary in my own modest opinion one of many brands to the barrel of new constellations so not only one is not a game moscow is more stay here but he's necessary course the nations who for example you know that you know this area more or less sure but you understand that this is. news and you can. so you had the. summer. maybe not that right to two hundred additional possible practical

arrive really the the tran the re not exist many times duran's i believe and then my question is absolutely necessary for in my opinion differing there are a lot of 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 good to russia has always been a very centralized country with a central government in central iraq. 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 tell you how to swim or do you think this is this may happen i.e. my opinion should be the not only of what needs the policy. economic

policy should be very important that the federal government and the people understand that 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 not was you need. kashmir this is but i feel 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 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 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 europe is these very core you because i was called to by one of them first of craft part of our 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 old people who but i was again to deal with these anonymous buildings we thought oh 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 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 has finished me 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 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 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 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 in and outside russia. say tune and see in the next edition of spotlight and i thank you.

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thousands of people homeless as central russia suffers it someone just heat wave and over one hundred years. talks to count out the water supplies and russia's far east are under threat as chinese authorities struggle to stop thousands of chemical waste barrels in a flooded river from reaching russia. than the stone you know so she's anti non-secret taxes but a lot of it was soldiers of the sword with the noses to gather for a commemoration of the country. news from russia and iran the world this is all see with me here today thanks for joining us at least twenty eight people have perished in forest fires raging across central russia the country is reading its wost hate wave in one hundred thirty days

which started in the middle of jury in the russian measures his ministry says it's taken this iteration to control how a firefighters are still struggling with the blazes thousands have been left homeless in the past few days by the flames which have can see. a number of entire villages also our fast reports from the veronese region one of the worst hit areas . they've made managing to get the situation under control after the last few days has seen a huge amount of destruction caused by these five we visited the town of muscle of coaches one of the worst hit areas some of the people who are living that find out how they were taping with the situation they could only watch hopelessly at the fires he only paid one person's along with this is a village of miles love about fifteen minutes from british. and one of the places was affected by the fires that have left many of the homes here completely destroyed. the fire wasted.