A documentary about love of seduction and power ice cold passion starts october 8 on d, w. Ah ah, each been i, michelle, he, i actually became an architect because i thought right in line with bow house that im making a better wealthy. Its been my husband are close out on. I grew up in my grandparents house off and i thought that house is like tree this one until my mother tells me no. My people made them on medicine and then i wanted to down for dish, just to architects, build the world. We live it elegantly, uniquely masterfully. Hey, what are doing architecture . You do it to 100 percent . Oh not the tool to for on for a lot of responsibility. I can lose a great deal. Architecture is a tough field for women who built the inside and say, guessing the Decision Makers and those that give out the contract. We are mad with the Architecture Works on the base conditional framework, so to speak, to work in law hi deed the queen of curves, was one woman who broke through until her death in 2016. She desired structures that are 2nd to none. A deed is one of only 5 female architects who have received one of the sectors most important awards. The pritzky price, along with her div worth because you use a shima even for l and shelley, math, amera, and on like i dont. Thats 5 women in 43 years. There are more and better educated female architects than there are male architects. And yet only 5 percent of Architectural Firms around the world are run by women for a few years. Now, women have been coming to the forefront. Theyre not just fighting for commissions, theyre fighting for recognition. What determines the success of women and architecture, and thus of the structures in the world thats around us all. Whether theyre up in coming or already established with their own firms, working freelance or in administration. What are the working worlds like for these women . What battles do they face . What are their dreams . What drives them . How and why do they built . What does it mean to be an architect . Ah. Yeah, its been leaking. Im thinking a lie bigger and im a partner at the architect his office of barco light being out in berlin. Many regina liveing her is one of germanys best known female architects. Her buildings range from a kindergarden to industrial structures, all the way to pavilions that seemed to glide on air. Her latest project is the b hub in the berlin district of fredericks time, cried speck time for a site visit. That is at this building. Is this how silly cold was it a full, a kind of treatment. It belong to a glass boring factory when descending wont agree, but converse diss. And i think i see all this around here is super co raglin living. Just beyond that one, now i think myself on is of the home, is that up front as the homeless . Oh good, a great vacation for a great time to india. And on the other side, theres the espanol and then theres just the she, a length of the building. Its enormous genome. Mm. The b hub is a massive project by berlin Architectural Firm barco, liveing. Her, it has a total length of 300 meters, with a surface area of 47300 square meters, divided over 10 floors of office space. The facade folds like an accordion offset by horizontal bands of exposed concrete and vertical reinforcements of white fluted terra cotta tiles. It just stands there, tall and long can. You can look to see what these corners do, and with the layering that these elements mean. It doesnt look like one single long buildings. Instead its like 6 different buildings. And thats important with the length of 300 meters and from i mean of me. Architecture can do so much if it moves util. Theme it adds the bait bang out or i i, i, i, i, i think i just always find it amazing when you can stand somewhere up high in berlin. You tend to miss the hill, lisa, folks in southern germany. I used to, but i find it fascinating to see the city from on high again and again and also daughter regina liveing her was born in stuttgart in 1963 in a family with a definite flare for business to my. And it comes to thinking it was an adjustable, actually come from a Family Business in southern germany and this the business and played a big role in our lives. It gave us a sense of this entrepreneurial spirit. And thats similar in architecture. If you go on to have an Architect Firm and its a big one, then its important that you also have Business Management and leadership quality in order to keep the shop together actually. And i was really lucky that because i learned from when i was small and i so have it worked and perhaps i have a certain gene you could say to do this. So to think by the time she was 16, she knew she wanted to be an architect when she finished high school last night. And this is they can, i wanted to get away as fast as i could. I went out of this very protective environment like every shoot got girl at 1st i went to get one unit, but then i ended up in berlin and by chance. And that was like going abroad for someone from stuttgart. It felt like a foreign country liveing or winter berlins Technical University and took horses and Building Construction and structural physics. But that soon took her to even further places. And i applied in america and was accepted at harvard and ill admit i was nervous. Gabriel, and it is just, well, harvard is a very good school and it comes with a quite a reputation naturally me, but that pays off. There are fantastic teachers lacking math, but still they were mostly men on plots, didnt pay me far more men than women. What regina liveing her became acquainted with him in 19 eighties was no exception. While studying casting to her for had to do without heroines, she could use to orient herself. Her fellow male students didnt have this problem. Photocopy of i took option was always will a bow tie. He called me and local boucher had these thick glasses with dark frames and all student body. The men were divided into the ones who wore the glasses on. The ones who was both times talking on do you then you knew right away who their role models were and they emulated them. I for the women students didnt have anything like that said you stood in to nish. Oh, the been a risk is researching the history of women in architecture. The experience is described by casting do herfer are of no surprise to her. Busy that was systematic in history, in the history of architecture in the profession. And we know from our research how many women were marginalized and how many works by women were not documented in the 20th century. And if they were documented, am i still got the credit him . As an architectural student, shavani chakrabarti received a book about eileen gray as a gift. During a seminar trip, she visited grays cult status villa in 2006. She came away deeply impressed as well at all miles and im back then it was just about a ruin and i was able to get in the house. And i had it in my head was because i had studied her so much and arguable. And you exactly how things looked back then, you know, even though a lot of it was in disrepair, but that was a great experience for shavani chakrabarti, the visit to eileen grays villa was important, decisive even in france will be nick for people that when women have to few role models from the start than an element of identification is, methinks, therefore its easier for men. After all, in the whole of architecture education and planning funds, there are men and they dominate the whole thing. Thats why they can identify well with everything in and about this field or at least much earlier than women can. Hong at the end of the 1980s at Harvard Regina liveing or met her liter partner and husband frank barco. Once i had my how the degree, i thought id finally get to the city of my dreams, new york city, but then there was an economic crisis, and the berlin wall came down. My 1st i said rome, but then lets just go to berlin now. So we pitched our tents here in 1993. It was very modest. We just had a studio apartment. And we said, we try working freelance. We didnt really have anything at all. There was just a name plate on the outside of the building that said barcode i, being an architect, and thats how it started. Their breakthrough came in 2001 when they were commissioned to build the potsdam biosphere for Germanys National guard and show the gargantuan structure of concrete and glass provided a home for more than 20000 tropical plants. Monumental in style. It was located on a former military firing range at the citys edge. More prestigious projects followed, including one for the southern german Family Business. Trump. Well then i was a no time we were being allowed to build in berlin on the most very decides already different neighborhoods and of course, surroundings play a really big role in those cases. I had the central train station in the rope, a city, for example, you would do Different Things than you would in the crowds bag district where you find well developed quite bag loft architecture, loft stretches or imprints. So a bag in a back courtyard on corvette architect helga block stores. Life story was filled with challenges. Now shes conquered, the art of building humanity vacate ems out. What does she place . You know how people go for life varies greatly depending on your situation from the start. My mother raised 3 girls on her own and our circumstances growing up were extremely precarious. One option that we didnt even dare think of was that all 3 of us could attend university. My name is helga block store deluxe, and i run a firm in berlin. Im also a professor of Building Construction at the Technical University of franchise at pitt contract bookstore made her way through art and university commissioned projects until she became self employed in 2013. At 1st, she made a name for herself by re conditioning, existing structures, like the house calls were renovated, one family house from the 900 sixties, with a gable roof or the house for jose in northern berlin. The contrast with regina lighting or is Major Projects could hardly be any greater. They said a mood their distinctive and tend towards the abstract. Thats what makes blocked or st building stand out. In 2020, she took part in a competition of, of im are based organization. The classic shift on her entry was a temporary structure made of plywood and birch bark to bo, of god was a 2 sang from and i was in the beginning so to speak. Was to build an innovative structure of wood from, from the start the contract and made it clear that i could experiment men in come, how good blocks dark developed the berkin house as a modern light colored addition to the existing historic walls of groups as borkin, heisen which dated back to 1778. It was only a few 100 meters away from the plan site in weimar. Dennis in monday flag in the hope and his 5th of apps is always the question when you are in a competition. How much does the task relate to reality . Do you try right away to get everything right . A tv or is there a type of provocative openness in the task . And the way its presented the tense, more to raise questions hung her for moved. The play of shapes and materials is very important to her design. Regina lighting is Architectural Office is in a real korean in the western part of berlin, and occupies the several lessons adding was born causing all this is em. Building materials are something that play a really big role in our office on there are things i thought that recur again. And again, if theres an interest, a leitmotif that shows out repeatedly and is reconsidered and re conceived again, and again, may tell us why this thing can show up as a metal lap on a large roof of the dime, the building. Yes, it can be transferred to a much smaller scale and this time in wood for a serpentine and then at the house, id say because its permanent, there. These leaves and the lights are drawn in and reflected. Sometimes it looks like a u, f o, but actually it almost looks as if it were always there really can a project be realised incomplete, accordance with the architects concept. Competitions are often the eye of the needle. That designs must pastor i know site of course on the one hand as the opportunity to get commissions without having to go to the rotary club or golf club. Awful boys regular. The lucia has put her mark and berlins architecture like no other. After working as an architect and zurich in vienna, she was called to berlin in 2007. As the director of urban urban planning, she was responsible until july 2021 for competitions in the city and was a member of many selective committees. Anyone who wanted to work on important projects had to cross her path at some point is just so busy me and behind. Oh, its true that i dont just write a book or express a thought sun and afterwards its there in stone. You were to glass or which has a little glass chiseled in one thing. So i really cant allow myself to make any mistakes. And i just have to select the best project to play out. So who competitions are big opportunities for smaller Architectural Firms, but their controversial normans act ever fell at if could to put it relatively sensually. Its almost impossible for new officers to take heart because the standards of the way they are in every team that you have to do for the competition. You have to have a built already. Bottom was of wittman. Im glad to play actin. If you get an invitation, lets say for a town hall, lots in, youre supposed to have already designed 10 town homes. Hows that supposed to work on now . And then youve got to show how much money you have that a model of a few or any number of other things. Thats a disadvantage for. Well, the laughter, diversity and creativity just ends up going by the wayside. And the fantasy have heard from mr. Bay, him monta is, is saw, its likely true that most ingenious project architecturally thick isnt the one that wins kenny eyes to quake giving up a few. But for those that have to implement it, and its the best choice, the face. They why the skipped the, theres a wonderful series of discussions called aint position with architecture. I in them theres an interview with catherine who just that, but it was the director of urban planning and basil of dec fires. And in order to get out of the exclusivity of the golf club situation, said the image of this city is of that act great. When elegance versa that we should really open all commissions for public reading, roughly every one on or, and without any kind of eligibility restrictions along with us. As you can imagine, id very much like to propose that to for our lucia, just that she reads it and understand what it can mean for a city that my name, my name is on rica icon. Im an architect and architectural intermediary, or rica shorn was working for berlin City Government in 1990. 1 construction was booming. Buyers were hotly bidding for the many empty spaces and the unified city. It was a matter of millions or rica icons boss was responsible for awarding contracts. And because of this was the target of a deadly attack that still remains unsolved to this day. After his death, she left the sector shore and has maintained her links to architecture and is demanding a radical reconsideration of how contracts are given to promote the art of Building Design and diversity. Even to me that id like to see competition. Competition show how diverse the world can be when different people plan things and take different approaches. Young people, the elderly women, men, students, then you can get so many different ideas. Everyone has a different perspective in the hands of fatal neighborhood. You can see whats being created back then people really got involved and tagging them rica, Insurance Office is located in berlin. Tons of futile after world war 2, hundreds of thousands of departments needed to be built in in berlin. Shattered by war in 1957, the government in the western part of the city held the International Building exhibition known as inter bout for short. International architects were invited to design modern residential complexes. They are Still Standing today. Ah, the process from concept to contract is long in rocky. When regina liveing her and her team are invited to a competition, the firms are very own competition. Department goes to work dylan, i glad answer, and we were invited to take us in a competition for a sighted alexander plaques at the 1st Tall Building and we had, and i still think this to day a brilliant design is spent hearse place, went to frank gary with a miserable hum central, i think its catastrophic, truly. The 2nd place went to our friend and acquaintance. Young. Klaus and design was very good. We came in a 3rd and we was was it oh disappointed because 1st place was just given to an architect, frank gary who just has this big important name. And that was really a disappointment on really is disappointing. Is that you really cant lay yourself underestimate these competition, having so much of your life blood gets bent on them so much energy, then you really have to pull yourself together and somehow keep going. So that its not all for nothing. And so much thought goes into it that madness god, weve done so many competitions and weve won lots of them. But those designs dont get built either. Its just tedious. Sometimes it is natural the way it is. Its part of the deal, and we just got to do it, emma. After that set back, she went on to another major project. She was invited to join in the competition for the new a stroll tower and want it done that and that wasnt just a consolation prize fight. It was just so crazy that we want it after we had this disappointment with alexander plus. We uncorked 3 bottles of champagne. Its true. It was such a buzz like walking on the cloud muscles. V of no, i can. Where berlins 1st skyscrapers, the astral tower is said to be 176 meters tall. The citys tallest building, it will have 45. 00 floors, and they total surface area of 75000 square meters. There will be 800. 00 hotel rooms and offices in it, plus an event center of parking garage, a restaurant, and a spot. The towers facade will be made of striking bleeds, of aluminum. And it doing a competition where you pull all nighters and have a wonderful idea where its apparently been understood what youre achieving with these concepts and giving Something Back to the world. Helga blocks dorff accepted the dare and submitted her beer can house to the competition. And weimar. Wow, so what did the jury think they were skeptical at 1st . Danver had clad as fittest material is ended on it and it became clear they thought we werent serious about the birch bark. That i could still be diplomatic when i answered that we jacket as we knew that it was used to fill in grass saud route on finland and get but as the technology and it had nearly died out. And the question of whether you could use it on the other side of the, with the light side, facing out as a facade in this case. That was simply a process of consideration and coordination that took, mumble says in the end she prevailed. The last hurdle was cleared when the birch bark passed the materials test a year and a half later. And the building was standing on site. Ah, and it looks just as well you thought it was going to show the project wave is between the pavilion and a proper building office. We try to push it more towards the pavilion so that it looks like it was properly built. But at the same time as if it just landed there. Ah, isnt it any rate now or in the last phase for those and the outside looking in there is not much to see. But for the architect, thats where a maximum of blood sweat and t is get filled in. Because at the end, you naturally want to create the final 5 percent just as you imagined it and lose details on the edges or the colors or whatever that you cant is covered out with 3 coats of paint. And you need to do it correctly. All the way to the very end. Its kind of like michelin start cooking, the ceiling. You managed that. I dont know whats in the plan there for a rob, its all plant, thats what were doing with the ceiling. I dont think so. Thats just terrible. Had a lot of pain to use the wrong top of mineral pain for this wall. So now the ceiling looks different from the walls. Thats an absolute no good. No go. Of course sometimes says a little meltdown when you get a cold and the rain is coming in somewhere and youve got to sorted out immediately because youre anxious that theres been some sort of error in the design. After all, when youre building is always a question of lots of money. It is a sick and its clear that when youre spending a 1000000 on a building, you really cant have any mistakes. Pip, im you 100 my a globe luca. I have my own solomon, berlin, and im a lecturer at the Technical University of damaged ob snap. Shes designed a multi florida very special Apartment Building at crew firsthand class at 142. 00 in berlin. Just a vows to learn, sustain as is neevadolla some call. I love standing here on the construction site because you think wow, if i could, someone is really building something that i what we drew law. On the other hand, im a bit nervous when i come here, lola mock. Thats because youre thinking, oh god, that hopefully they wont discover anything that i should have done differently. La la has the something final about it and you really cant change it anymore. And thats why theres always a little bit of fear when you show up at the construction site. Yeah. But actually than really yes, its fantastic of eiletha on hosted blue transparent spaces, individual floor plans and quite unconventional around the edges. The 6 towers are pushed into each other and follow a gentle curve. The apartments inside have low and high areas. Voice are 19 apartment las vegas. The floors are really difficult to count because as you can see, the levels on conventional like they are with other buildings. The idea instead is that none of the rooms have a consistent ceiling height. Instead, you want to make more extreme spaces that you want very low spaces, with a ceiling height of 2 and a half meters and like an, an intimate nest where the kitchen is, where you sleep, and in the bathrooms. You said the same time, every apartment has ceilings that are twice as high where people can gather together. It only takes a few minutes for her to cycle from her ambitious apartment house project to the eula stow shack collection. The interior design is the result of a competition that you hunter, my grow broker, one in 2016. The eulley associate collection is one of the biggest collections of contemporary video art. Its housed in a building that dates back to the 19 sixtys. Its got lots of small rooms and is nearly entirely made of glass. So its under the davis 400. 00 of blends. How the idea of the cut and came to be that actually masters all of these challenges. Its a cut and that folds from the outside in that you actually have this bright space that you can withdraw into and sit down where you can study the catalog and very deliberately choose where you want to go. Almost like the movies. So you can just relax and look outside as well. Johan maya grow broker, began to search for the unconventional and extreme an architecture. After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of technology and zurich, she set her course for japan. As they are forever clear on soon ive been to lots of places in the world before i but when i got to tokyo i that was quite the shock. And i thought it wasnt comparable to any place else that i had been with no of the city. And that was really liberating, though i always had the feeling the japanese architecture had was so different under theres something mysterious about it. So much has left openness and i found that very fascinating. First thing yet her in 2005, she applied for a job at the renowned at santa Architectural Firm of the Award Winning female architect kazoo yosi, shima in tokyo. She intended to stay for 3 months. Those 3 months became 5 demanding years is lava. I think the hardest thing for me and which of course was part of the deal was that i had absolutely no social contact it naturally we always worked until 2 or 3 in the morning and then we went town a little late at night, allison up and that was may be the only contact you had at night in the bar. And the next morning you went to work again. Does that . Well, thats fine. When youre doing right when youre not. Well, i think that it was kind of hard as an odd genevedes deborah, who say our deadline of antithesis of the profession is really quite deadline oriented. Often outside is really dont get it pilot. And if you go in and work in the competition department, and yes, that does exist tighter than you, usually always busy there until 11 pm or later. This pressure is simply on every one and it weighs on them because i, i believe taking on the responsibility of shaping the Society Might not be everybodys thing you them on. So the pressure is high and there are very precise ideas about what you need to succeed in architecture as are, its been in that e t ha, at the institutional they drum, this is missing into us. That its the architect, even the gray create act, dark or sickly about you know, everything or he take an art tag is more like a heroic. I me who acts day and night in really lives for their job want does my also in my free time off i did as with us monday, travel architecture, leap down, watch movies, about architecture, through the architect, read books, seal, and listen to music on your spiritual everything to further your architecture, he take to walk on gazette. This image has been handed down through architectural history, the cult of the genius as part of its legacy casting to her 1st is that as a reason why the stereotypes are so stubbornly persistent as of the girl mitchell, she gone. Since the geometric figures, the terror symbol of the rationality of masculine thought in architecture, assessing contrast to the emotionality of women was thats why women were long labeled, incapable, actually. But that doesnt mean, and this is important, that there isnt a direction that women take, that we want other shapes and that women only build round things. They just make hills. And i dunno Something Like this. No, thats not my opinion. A toll. My women are also rational, but are often excluded from the conversation and often of course, christmas. In 2010, johan maya grow braga, opened a firm with her partner, sam, share my ass, and they were immediately confronted with stereotypes than the following months. When a woman and a man have a firm together, when automatically at rows are ascribed from the outside to the tide, the view is that the man is the creative madman. And the woman is the lady in the background who ensures that in every thought holds as it should and everything is an order, so to speak. And that always drove me a little crazy because actually it was my, the other way rang chosen here on the caird. Im a professor i studied with had always said very cynically, that husband why the offices are always made up of a male architecture of mediocre talent. And sort out a very talented female architecture student shouldnt and they ran them until it was clear how things were to the rules and then came the children and that a woman was out of the game. Anyway. Oh eagles. The power and dominance of men has a wide ranging influence on women in the profession. So click and looking back. Yes, the things were said when a woman was introducing a project project focused there. Yeah. Youre wearing a particularly pretty shade of later today. It doesnt to which of course is im clearly caught in appropriate onion is i can remember that all i did, tommy, youre simply ignore empty with us in vic kizzy in harvey. Ah, verbena ris a lecture at the Technical University of vienna has also had similar experiences in london. I worked at all southern shed, irma in london and humbled irma is a Hamburg Office and it still is some youngster among apartments back then. He had had for many years, a partnership with william also in london. And there was a direct to there who oversold several projects, including ours. He was french and a chauvinist. When i look back on it, my him, he just said i wasnt allowed to do specific things on this project and they were significant things. Although we the project leader and i was specifically assigned to the project to some voice for this is quaked, i guess it wouldnt the sort of the earth in my voice yet was the 1st time i noticed that it troubled me personally to personally. And that there was actually a system to it in that office back then there were around 50 of us working there. All. And many of the women would go to the bathroom and cried because of different directors who actually forbid them to do certain things or treated the women poorly for. Hm. Okay. So then i went and took this as an opportunity and i thought perhaps good and thats not how its going to be. Were not just going to accept that with the kids. And i managed to have this director removed from the project and i was under 30 back then funding boy up. Its actually looking back. Im quite proud that i achieved bad sports in my finances, tiskus after. As in many professions, the working reality for female architects is dominated by tough conditions. A private life with or without children, can become a stumbling block for their careers. As an essence is not to eat, i nixa. The 1st thing is that its a disaster. On vaughan, when you actually perceive how view women are run Architectural Firms on their own, dorothy will feel on what all needs rethinking is how long contextual in general works on any how people are training hours. What the career should look like on a completely fundamental level as most gone said to hear about that to happen skipped. And then theres the actual fact that if you dont share part of the child wearing within the family, then youre out of the house. Shampoo my good laugh, i used to always laugh about these people. He said that they were a g j and a painter and Something Else lincoln now does. And exactly that happened. Your mother married and you run this firm and your professor po for school em. Id always thought that that wouldnt really apply to me. I was invited to be on your readings. I got a professorship very quickly and we had our children number the office worked despite all that because i had the great good fortune that i had someone who looked after my children at home. You have to be clear about that. Thats how its possible to have a kareema statistics show that around 40 percent of the female architects in germany work part time while only 12 percent of their male colleagues do. What else besides flexible models for working hours as needed, so that women will finally be designing on a level playing field, a binding quota that ensures that positions are all filled with equal numbers of women and men. That hasnt happened up to now. Martina bower, the only woman in upper Level Management at bar colliding her knows how important it is that the profession take the initiative to meet womens needs. Can i by to what we accommodate so many different possibilities as often right . I working 3 days every 2 weeks and are having 1st monday that every month golf, i think for the around 80 female Staff Members that we have. We also have a different situation that satisfies people, but its important and it allows women to combine they work with taking care of children will calm. Its not like them. I know that for a long time. I actually believe that when youre good, you dont need a quota when youre good and you prevail, its mostly. If youre enthusiastic, passionate and above all, if youre good and maybe even a cut above, sometimes it doesnt matter to him. In the meantime though, he, the more i address this issue, the more i see that there is a structural problem between men and women. And it is, and always has been that way, is i think, is such an interval. The fact that the profession has up to now been dominated by men wasnt because they were better, it was easier for them to succeed, while women by contrast werent able to use their full potential. In spite of many structural barriers, women architects have developed strategies over the last years to prevail and theyre conquering the art of architecture. Bit by bit. Shark sy, in von d. C. Knoxville director the headlines red or the cities director. Herb and planning is in over her head. I was very harshly criticized and hm. And they were quick demands for a strong hand fucking liam. I just learned that i needed to appear more confidence at pre. I needed to learn to master the right toe for giving orders and that you have to take on the issues surrounding power mom and not push them away from most. Instead, si, fi you yourself muscle act. When you see these games for power and getting the gain yourself, osman all indecent coffee, go he in ocoee yet it have, i was just the 30 when i was on my 1st construction site for i was the youngest in smallest there. And the only woman that was that, so i knew that i was small and not significant. Mister dalton, alba, but i was the architect and i was in charge of the styles at herself. And because of that, i knew i call our shop in the do the sovereign hut for me, it was simply natural that i was the boss shift. I wanted to both build and design things. Now its worked, is that how you become the boston and women are chafing well known exhibitions, prestigious buildings and awards traditionally have great significance in architecture. They drive careers and they turn great names and even greater ones. Men and women architects both become star architects, right . Which cup just he said titan is fine. I think those days are gone as it is. That was just a phase in the history of architecture in which a few special personalities did special architecture. His wonder, i believed that its been going in the direction of teamwork for quite some time and, and its well known now that only a team can produce good architecture. Hamano m t ma hm. I think the idea of it chrome completely wrong, it hurts how with the saved by the public. It damages architects because of these architects. And there are only 5 habit, a so called the star architect. And they scoop up all the Major Projects that thats perceived externally. But i saw it. He said that people, st. Buildings can only be designed by star architect, fallen and of course, their men, men, men are men. Armina. In july 2021. Helga black star, celebrated the opening of her spectacular structure, which is officially called the or leibniz, portal. Data off only worked towards that for a year long him, thats just crazy. This fits and if it takes a year and a half from winning the competition to the opening than you working for 2 years or a year and a half for a building. And that will be up for just 5 years. Have yahveh and house this hoover then you ask yourself and consider whether thats in all right proportions. I always find that its worth it and there were other sister slew and the stress and pressure of the past months are over. Its a good time for the architect to reflect and to feel her own work around her versus i display it is what is poetic actually, im how, whats behind the mystery of the building . Im of harvard lavished. Thats a question. I believe that comes to you quite late, or maybe even after youve already left the place you are visiting and then love my calmed anti and our mouth and then it comes to again. And it makes you think about the fact that you are standing there on for like guns i am. Uh huh. I know you just read the in and out and look around it and make sure youre conscious of what actually just came in to be this vesta granted them recently, shavani chakrabarti completed a project for helga block stores. As the architect in charge of construction. Its called house of oldest through and features light colors and large windows. Theres a bright space on the ground floor thats only divided by the stairwell. Shavani chakrabarti describes the task. This design and the structures that were chosen to be executed on the construction side. Also that you now have this smooth facade and dont see anything. So it all lose procedure. And also im trying, in this case to implement helga blocks dos design just to she conceived is all identity. The construction book is distract me off me when they say yes, but you could do it that way. Weve always done that that way on. And then i just like to my guns and say, you know, were going to do it right to speak. Or josh, ah, what is just been a vision up to now is the estrella tower in berlin. But by 2024 it should rise above the city skyline. Yeah. Okay. I are. Okay. You can see this chimney on the right. This aspire you could say. And then to the left of it after that its the estrella. It just has to be really good, equal to in this building must be extremely good, was all buildings have to be good, but this one has to be insanely good answers only good last it will be standing so alone. So writing focus line, and it will be so tall, 175 meters. Well thats it. When you look around here as of and then it will be the tallest thing, not just here, but the tallest building in berlin, us history. But its so alone, along with the group here at alexander plats, it might just disappear. So this here, it really has to be really, really good with them as office and the good. Do you enjoy the fact that it will be taller than the one at alexander plots . I know, sir im, im a kind of lead in maybe a little whether established or young and on their way as different as these female architects are. They share a number of things. Theyre closing gaps. They have their own visions and they seek solutions. Theyre breaking traditions and changing their field and they know from their own experiences what they need as they step up to change the world. If indeed, does this gun swanson should . I think networking is amazingly important. Its not just on a professional level, but just to make your presence found this present to ma. Hm. Good, good thing about architecture is that you get better and better the old you of edible, respected for, given that i have a ways to go yet. In this, the next generation will be far more able to shine because were the ones who have done the heavy lifting prepared the way so to speak on this bid for a supervisor voice mission. 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