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Why we build ugly, boring buildings if we know how to build beautiful ones?
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Why we build ugly, boring buildingsif we know how to build beautiful ones?

Why we build ugly, boring buildings
if we know how to build beautiful ones?

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Why we build ugly, boring buildings if we know how to build beautiful ones?
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7 seconds
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01:29:14
Uploaded
Apr 02, 2025
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documentary
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ma.ja.de. FilmProduktions,Point du Jour,Les Films du Balibari,A24,Hailstone Films,ZDF,ARTE,The Match Factory

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An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone.
And it's bringing me back to the decisions that I never took in my life. - Architecton 00:07
And it's bringing me back to the decisions that I never...
Right now we are doing a skyscraper in concrete. - Architecton 00:07
Right now we are doing a skyscraper in concrete.
I am asking my colleagues - Architecton 00:14
I am asking my colleagues
Because it's just ... - Architecton 00:05
Because it's just ...
It's just one of these skyscrapers, - Architecton 00:13
It's just one of these skyscrapers,
It is not symbolic at all, it has no meaning. - Architecton 00:06
It is not symbolic at all, it has no meaning.
And this will last for 40 years, 50 years. - Architecton 00:06
And this will last for 40 years, 50 years.
But I hate concrete because concrete is arid. - Architecton 00:06
But I hate concrete because concrete is arid.
Nothing will grow up in a concrete building. - Architecton 00:08
Nothing will grow up in a concrete building.
But do you think we will ever, ever solve the problem - Architecton 00:07
But do you think we will ever, ever solve the problem
Yes, I think that this is possible. - Architecton 00:05
Yes, I think that this is possible.
This is possible, for example, with something that is not, - Architecton 00:12
This is possible, for example, with something that is not,
It doesn't become garbage when it is done. - Architecton 00:05
It doesn't become garbage when it is done.
That becomes ... - Architecton 00:05
That becomes ...
Everything that has not fertility inside - Architecton 00:08
Everything that has not fertility inside
And it'll stay there ugly forever. - Architecton 00:05
And it'll stay there ugly forever.
Everything that is fertile and grows and develops - Architecton 00:12
Everything that is fertile and grows and develops
And if we want to survive in such a huge number on this planet, - Architecton 00:19
And if we want to survive in such a huge number on this plan...
This will be part of the evolution of the world - Architecton 00:09
This will be part of the evolution of the world
But if I listen to you, then ideally, - Architecton 00:10
But if I listen to you, then ideally,