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#LULALIVRE #FREELULA

(honking)

(soft music
playing on cab radio)

(indistinct chatter
on the radio)

- Hi, it's me.

Uh, yes, I'm on my way.

Uh... I am cutting it
very close.

Uh... I'll be there sharp

or five minutes late, so...

Drag it out if you can.

Yes. See you soon. Ciao.

(loud honking)

It's totally stuck, huh?
It's the tunnel, right?

Okay. You know what...

I'm gonna have to get out here.

- You get out here?
- Yes, yes. Keep the change.

I'm actually just
going to jump out. Yes, yes.

(cab driver, indistinct)

Excellent. Thank you.
Have a good day.

(classical music)

- Now look up to the ceiling.
Good.

I change your face a little, and
you change the face of New York.

- Perfect teamwork.
- Yes.

- Mr. Rose.
- How are you?
- Nice to meet you.

- Thank you so much.
- It's a pleasure.

- Bjarke Ingels is here.
At just 40 years old, he has
established himself

as one of the world's most
inventive and sought after
architects.

Earlier this week,
it was announced

that he will design
the fourth tower at
the World Trade Center.

I'm pleased to have him
at this table
for the first time. Welcome.

- Thank you.

(in Danish):
This is the old supermarket
where I used to work.

My first job was delivering
the local newspaper and
circulars in this area.

I also worked at the
hot-dog stand by the port
and at a supermarket.

And I made desserts and
did the dishes at a restaurant.

I cleaned up at the Central
Station, and I worked
at a nursing home

wiping old people's bums.

I worked as a mail man.

The worst job I ever had was
when I did statistical
surveys for Gallup.

Seriously. When you
bring out the paper or mail

even when you work
in a supermarket storehouse

you're free
to let your mind wander.

But doing surveys
on the phone felt almost
as if your mind was abused.

You couldn't even be alone
with your own thoughts.
That's insane.

(in Danish):
- Hi, you.

- Just in time for the sunset.
- Yes, I am.

- You've got new shoes.
- You have too. They're awesome.

(birdsong)

- The lawn is so beautiful now.
- More beautiful
than it's ever been.

There are beautiful
variations in the colour tone.

Having your own piece
of nature and that view
of the lake,

that's something special.

My parents' house has
a flat roof,

typical of 1960s modernism.

Because it's set in a hill,

I could jump off the hill
and grab the roof.

You could get onto the roof,
and then you could run
around up there.

That was until my dad saw us
and told us off
for walking on the roof.

It was bad for the roof,
and we might get hurt.

To me, it was a huge waste
to have this awesome roof.

You had a great view up there.
It was unfair
and a waste of resources.

I think that inspired me
in terms of our architecture.

It's more fun to draw houses
where you can walk on the roof

or where you have to walk
on the roof, or where you ski
on the roof.

Getting the most joy out of the
area you have and letting life
roam free,

human life and other forms
of life. This is
what architecture can give us.

- Could you pass the butter?
Is the sunlight
blinding you, Bjarke?

- I like it. I think, as a Dane,
that feeling of being blinded...

At least I feel that being
blinded by the sunlight feels
almost like...

It brings you joy.
- Right. You accept it.

- If it happened constantly,
it would drive you insane.

But I always associate it
with something very pleasant.

I've been talking a lot
about the two suns,
but never documented it.

- When Bjarke was just
one year and six months old

we discovered
that he was different.

When he watched movies, he
understood what they were about

even if they were
in another language.

And one curious thing was
that we never saw you
doing any homework.

- Right, I was pretty good
at all of it.

- Not at playing football.
- No. I didn't want to play.

- Do you want one
with coconut?
- No, thank you.

- Bjarke graduated,
and all he talked about
was making comic books.

He wanted to work at some
bureau, which turned out
to be impossible.

You had to have contacts.
So we thought, "We can't
have him lying around."

"He's been to 30 different
parties. This can't go on."

So Knud filled out the
paperwork, and then one morning,

well, one day, when Bjarke was
pretty well composed,
he was told to sign it.

And then about six to eight
weeks later, we received
a letter saying

Bjarke had been accepted
to the School of Architecture.

But he didn't want to go there
because he wanted
to make comic books.

Then we said, "You
might as well give it a try."

And I told him, "Just go there
for one week and try it out."

(dog barking in the distance)

(classical music)

(in English):
The greatest thing
about being an architect is...

...to build buildings.

There is nothing more amazing
than building buildings.

It's like it's...

That you conceive
of something...

You try to imagine what kind
of a city it is that you would
want to live in,

what kind of a world it is
you want to live in,

and then you build it,
brick by brick.

To see abstract ideas become
concrete reality is what
it's all about.

When you are building a building
or designing a building,

you have a chance to realize
in the world

something that has never
before existed in the world.

You can create
the most unlikely combinations.

You can put a ski
slope on top of a power plant.

And just because you did it,

then now, that becomes
how the world is.

Amager Bakke or "Copenhill"
is essentially a power plant

that turns waste
into electricity and heating.

It is the cleanest waste to
energy power plant in the world,

so we thought how could we
completely change

people's understanding
of what a power plant is?

How could we create
something extraordinary
out of the ordinary?

When this power plant is done,

it's gonna be the tallest
building in the whole city.

And we basically knew exactly

how the power plant
was gonna work,

what kind of machinery
would go into it.

So we decided: Why don't we
simply design it in such a way

that it actually becomes
a gigantic man-made mountain?

And because Copenhagen,
or Denmark, is a cold climate,

we actually have lots of snow

but because we have no
mountains, there is no skiing,

so we imagined that the roof
could be a black, a blue,

and a green ski slope.

So suddenly the Copenhageners
actually have alpine skiing
in the heart of the city.

It's gonna be half the length
of an Olympic half-pipe.

It's also gonna have the tallest
climbing wall in the world,

where the Copenhageners
can climb on 100 metres
of vertical fun.

And then to take
the final step...

You can say, typically...

The chimneys on a factory

are normally the symbol
of the unwanted side effect
of our way of life.

So we thought:
What if, in this case,

the chimney could be a
completely new kind of symbol?

So we designed the chimney
in such a way

that it, at regular intervals,
puffs out

gigantic rings of steam.

It is almost like my childhood
desires of walking on the roof

realized at the scale
of an entire city

where it's actually
amazing for the citizens

because what used to be
a power plant

becomes a public park.

- Right now we have
two serious problems.

One of them is that
ARC is not really committed

to not having found
a feasible solution

of how to do the smoke rings.

When you build a factory
that's full of fire

and you insure it
so it's worth four billion...

If it burns down, somebody
has to pay four billion.

If you tamper with one of
the most important mechanisms

where they get the heat out,

you really tamper with something
that might increase

the price that they have
to pay in order to get insured.

And they are really afraid
of that.

- Of course, since it's not been
done before,

there is an unknown risk.

If we don't do it, this project
is not going to happen.

Nobody wants it.
Nobody asked for it.

- One of the main problems,
of course,

is we have come up with
something, where there's
basically no client.

- I think on one hand,
it's important

that we don't force anyone
into a situation where they have
to say "yes or no".

If this goes up to
even a political decision,

there is too much uncertainty,

and then we are almost
guaranteed a no.

I think somehow, we have
to come up with some...

...general strategy of
how we deal with these things.

What excites us and what we
always end up doing

is somehow to bring
to the table something
that was not asked for.

If we only do what
we are asked for,

then we are gonna be like
all other architects.

Then we're just gonna try
to make

what has already been proposed
in the prettiest possible way.

And of course, we wanna do
that,

but what we want to do even
more is to make what has not
been proposed.

We wanna give to the world

something that the world
has not yet seen

and therefore, it doesn't fit
in any of the boxes.

So we have to
somehow become better at this.

(man, in Danish):
So here, we're doing the
best we can to make smoke rings.

That's cool,
but if we can't do that,

we might make something
just as beautiful.

- The great thing
about smoke rings is

that they're associated with
pleasure. You know what I mean?

When grandpa blows out
smoke rings, he's fucking
enjoying himself.

- Then let's look at
what your grandpa is doing.

- What are we doing wrong?
- I guess you're crouching
for a reason.

- Ready?
Three, two, one, go.

That's a smoke ring
made of steam.

I know you're laughing,
but it is.

I wouldn't believe it if I
hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

- Right. That's pure magic.

- We're undertaking
quite a complicated project,

which is more than drawing
the right lines.

It's having it
all come together.

- We've been rather frustrated,
because we feel

our practical needs have been
subjected to ambitions

for the surrounding environment.

It's important to us that
its function meets our needs.

- We need to find out what
we can do within the limits.

Looking at it, this is a
brilliant and insane idea,

a typical Danish idea.

But when you start looking
into the machinery... My God.

- This is the project we won
in an international competition.

We then encountered more
challenges than we would
ordinarily.

To me, that's a technical
or legal issue that we will
have to solve

like we've solved other issues
that arise when you make
something different.

- We need to get this
under control

and make something
we're all satisfied with.

- The only thing that
matters is the end result.

It would be the utmost
catastrophe for us
if our grand project

ended up as a failure.
That would be disastrous.

(in English): As an architect,
you have to celebrate

a thousand victories before
a project is complete.

And when you've fought
all the battles

and you've won
every single one of them,

then the project
can be realized.

And it only takes
a single defeat

and then
the entire project dies.

The Danish Maritime Museum
in the city of Elsinore

is located right next
to Hamlet's castle, Kronborg.

So the only place
where the museum could fit

so it wouldn't sort of
obstruct the views of the castle

was actually
in this old dry dock

where they used to build
ships.

So we came up with the idea
that instead of filling the dock
with the museum,

to actually put the entire
museum around the dock
underground

looking into the dock,
so the dock becomes
a gigantic courtyard.

Sp suddenly the
architecture becomes

this radical act of
preservation

and reinterpretation.

This triggered a
little bit of a drama

because the brief clearly said

that the only place you were
allowed to build

was inside the dock.

What we do is actually building
everywhere around the dock

and the only place we don't
build is actually
inside the dock.

All the other architects
had put their museum designs
inside the dock

and when they saw our winning
proposal they said:
"That's cheating!"

"How come we have to follow
the rules and these guys
get to cheat?

If we knew we could do that,
then we could have also put the
museum around the dock

and we could have also won."

So we now sort of won
our first big museum

and suddenly there are
lawyers and threats of lawsuits.

After a lot of battling, we
finally end up with a compromise

where the client acknowledged
that we had done something wrong

but they were still allowed
to pursue

and build our building.

(mixed chatter)

(in Danish):
Architecture is said to be
the sport of gentlemen.

It takes years of experience.

It also takes many years
to follow a project through.

When we received the competition
papers, we had just started
our firm. I was 31.

I'll soon have my 40th birthday.
So this truly is the work
of my 30s.

And I can't imagine anything
I'd rather spend all this time
doing. Thank you.

A GOOD HOLE IN THE GROUND

- It's quite short.
- Yeah.

It's very bland
reporting, very neutral.

- A six-star review could have
been more generous than this.

It might have said "A Great Hole
in the Ground". It's all "nice"
and "good".

- But he still
gives it six hearts.

(in English):
It's only to say that ...

The awards, again, we get about
half of the ones we apply for.

- That's amazing!

- We won "Red Dot Award",
"Best of the Best",

the "ULI Award of Excellence".

We are a finalist for the
Financial Times/Citi Awards.

You guys are all smiling.

I mean, it is so difficult
to get one of these.

It's crazy.

And as a final note,
my question to you guys is:

Do you feel like
we're in the right markets?

Do you want to go
to other markets?

- I think the strategy is
to strengthen Scandinavia
and North America.

And like almost not spend
any energy

on running after opportunities
anywhere else

but when opportunities find us,
we can see acquisitions...

- Are we limiting ourselves
too much? Are we being
too big for our britches?

- Denmark is a different case.

- We have the four parameters.
I would say:

if it's a museum,
I don't care where it is.

If it's a concert house
or anything...

- Bjarke, anywhere you go,
we can get work. That is a fact.

- Then I'd much rather stay
in America.

- Then the problem is you have
to come back if we get work.

- We have to leave now.

- To me, the Sydney Opera is
probably the ultimate building.

It's sort of...
extremely unique.

It's sort of a landmark location

on the waterfront of Sydney.

It has actually become
synonymous

with an entire continent,
Australia.

I think it's actually the most
recognizable building
in the world.

When you see it,
you instantly think: "This is
the Sydney Opera."

You know exactly where you are.

What's amazing about it is that,
on the one hand, it is
unapologetically modern

but it also draws on all these
more archaic building types.

It almost resembles
gothic vaults with the shells.

It's drawing on
references to Chinese pagodas.

These light organic elements
are elevated on a podium.

Also it's sort of...
Aztec temples.

This idea that
in the middle of the jungle,

you suddenly have
these elevated podia

upon which you
build the actual temples.

It draws on this whole world
of...

really, really fundamental
archetypical architecture

and reinterprets it
in a completely unique way.

It was actually also
born out of incredible misery.

Jorn Utzon moved to
Australia with his whole family

and after a bit more than
a decade,

he actually gets fired from the
job and is sent back to Denmark.

The building ends up
being completed without him.

It went ten times over budget,
so everything was a disaster.

But the final
result is somehow...

...worth all of the sacrifice
and hardship

in order to get there.

For anyone waiting
for the moment where...

You know, waiting
for your Sydney Opera

and working towards
your own Sydney Opera

is - I think - what any
architect ever dreams of.

(classical music)

(birdsong)

Denmark is obviously
a very small country.

Also, the buildings are
quite small.

It's like impossible
to build skyscrapers in a city

where all the buildings are
five stories tall.

So I've met this New York
real estate developer

who is actually right
now building

the One World Trade Center

the tallest skyscraper
in the Americas.

And he is somehow interested
in our way of working.

To get a chance to contribute
to the skyline of all skylines
of New York City

is an amazing opportunity
I have to take super seriously.

So at this point in my life,
I am going to move to America

and open an office
in New York City.

(city soundscape)

(city soundscape)

(chuckling)

(in Danish):
That's the Big Mermaid.

It's the new bookshelf at BIG.

We'll have a window between
the two drawing departments

that's always open

so that we maintain contact
across the Atlantic.

(indistinct chatter)

(in English): Thank you.

I'd like you to welcome you,
your royal highnesses,

to the BIG Apple headquarters.

And I hope you
have a great stay here.

And if you feel half as welcome

as we felt coming here, you're
gonna have a wonderful week.

So cheers everybody.

(classical music)

(city soundscape)

That's pretty impressive.

Every two weeks the entire
group tours the site?
- Yep.

- What's this kill box?

- It reads your eyes.
- Oh my God.

That's very "Minority
Report"-esque.

(chuckling)

- How have you been?
- Good.

We're basically in this
situation that on October 1st,

both the entire Copenhagen
office is moving
into a new space

and the New York office
is expanding.

It's like... a total mess.

(elevator whirring)

- Unique view, isn't it?
- It's amazing.

(in Danish):
We're on the 101st story
of One World Trade Center.

It'll be the tallest building
in North and South America.

Looking around, even though
Downtown Manhattan is filled
with skyscrapers

they're all down there
somewhere. It's baffling.

(in English): I met
Douglas Durst at a conference

where he was talking
about sustainable high rises.

We started having a conversation
about a site

on the west side of Manhattan

where we are going to try
to make

this sort of unlikely
combination

of something
typically Scandinavian

and something American.

We call it "Scandi-merican".

Which is essentially
to try to combine

the social space
of the courtyard

with the density
of the skyscraper,

what we call
the "court-scraper".

It's an amazing opportunity.

It's visible from all over
the Hudson River.

It could potentially be
an entire landmark

on the skyline of the most
epic of skylines in the world.

If you look at Manhattan, it's
basically this piece of bedrock

floating on the Hudson,
and it's full of city blocks.

At the heart of this extremely
dense urban environment

you have this oasis,
Central Park.

Our site is right here
on the west side of the river.

What if we could
take this amazing idea

of the urban oasis of
the entire scale of Manhattan

and boil it down
to a single city block?

Our idea is to say:
This is our site.

What if we combine
the communal space

of the Copenhagen courtyard

and crossbreed it with
the qualities and the density

of the American skyscraper?

The amazing views,

the amount of people living
together in the same place...

And basically the result becomes
this sort of twisted
"court-scraper".

You still have the park

where the residents
can come out and play.

The sun falls into
the courtyard all day.

People can actually enjoy
the views of the Hudson River

both from the courtyard itself
and from their apartments.

And in this sort of
warped surface,

we start having
these huge terraces.

The biggest ones are shared,

but the smaller ones are for
the individuals living there.

And as a result, you can imagine

the skyline of Manhattan
suddenly is gonna get

this sort of striking
new silhouette,

unlike anything that the city
of Manhattan has ever seen.

The material of the warped
surface will be bead-blasted
stainless steel.

This soft, bright material

will show off the double
curvature

of this kind of unique form

and eventually could become
like a beacon on the waterfront
of the Hudson.

- We thought
it was a tremendous risk,

not having worked
in New York before.

Actually, not having worked
in the United States before,

I think right?

It was a huge risk.

But we are entrepreneurs,

and that means
we are risk-takers.

Bjarke is not unique.
I'm sorry, Bjarke.

(chuckling)

And Bjarke is willing to listen.

We've had architects...

who simply refused...

to take direction.

I've had an architect say:
"I'm putting my pencil down.
That's it."

Bjarke does not have
a fragile ego. Luckily.

- In the end it's gonna be

Douglas' and the Dursts'
building

so if it's not the building
that Douglas wants,

it's not going to happen.

In that sense... there's also
somehow this...

like, I'm interested
in trying to find

the best possible iteration of
the building that Douglas wants.

- When I started in the business

the family always built the
same building they built before

'cause they knew the mistakes

and had learned how to live
with them.

But we try to make
new mistakes.

(in Danish):
- Look at the Empire
State Building. It's amazing.

(in English):
- You said it will take three
months to clear the whole site?

Is that the entire excavation

or purely removal
of contaminated soil?

- That's the entire preparation
for the foundation.

So it's the removal of all the
contaminated soil

and the removal of any soil
that's not contaminated

but just sort of needs
to be removed

before putting in
the foundation.

So far so good.

(Bjarke chuckling)
- That's good!

(truck beeping)

The building maintenance
unit is running on rails here.

So being the window cleaner
is almost like having
a roller coaster ride.

And then they can actually go
down along these lines.

This is a little bit
how things go down...

- How do you sleep at night?

How do you turn
your creative mind off?

- I'd say that I sleep like
a baby actually.

It's having the patience
and the confidence

that each situation
has a unique set of potential.

And it's going to be hell

if you get the wrong foot
out of the bed

and you try to make something
that it's not.

But once you discover

what it could
or should be all about

then things just flow
completely naturally.

- Yeah.

- The alternative would have
something like this.

If they do like this,

it sort of becomes more and more
like a mysterious symbol.

Like a Dan Brown novel.

Maybe there is some
kind of a spiralling thing.

- Maglev, the trains, are
constantly changing
their magnetics...

- For the things that would
potentially start in November:

that would be the Samsung
Pavilion at the Rio Olympics -

this is on the first page -

and then there's this
potential Miami Port terminal
competition.

- Where we did the...
- The cruise ship.

- Oh, that'd be amazing.

- So then if we do something
in November,

that would mean not doing
the Samsung Pavilion in Rio.

- I think we should do both.

(in Danish):
It almost looks realistic.

- It's quite creepy.

(people on TV
singing Happy Birthday)

(applause)

- Look at the love
you're getting.
- Sure, from myself.

That was wonderful.
Thank you.

What's he writing?

"Speech..."
(all laughing)

(in English): To all of the
Bjarkes in Copenhagen,

do you hear anything?

- Yes.
- You all look wonderful.

And you still
all look very young.

And trust me...

Turning 40 sounds like
an unlikely to happen to you.

But it will happen.

You can rest assured that
the alternative is even worse.

(all chuckling)

(cheering)

(classical music)

(echoes of laughter)

(in Danish): I had a concussion.
I was hit with a baseball bat.

(in English):
For Bjarke Ingels?

(in Danish): Then I had
this harrowing headache.

I thought I was going to die.

My ears were ringing.

And when I went to...

I've never experienced
anything like it.

It felt like my head
would explode.

For three days after that,
my head was pounding.

I've had a headache ever since.

I think you should relax
as much as possible

when you've had a concussion.

But it's quite difficult
to turn off your brain.

I mean, not exercising is quite
simple, but to not think is
almost impossible.

So I thought
I'd have it checked out.

(in English): Thanks.
- You are welcome.

(in Danish): He just examined me
in the room, and he told me

the chances of them
finding something are very slim.

But still, he thought

I should get an MRA and an MRI.

So at least I'll get
pretty pictures of my brain.

But, I mean...

I got so paranoid
when it happened.

If your brain
doesn't function...

I'd rather lose my arm...

...than not use my head.

It would be horrifying.

I'll account for our
disappointing results

from BIG, Copenhagen.

The general issue, I think,
is the lack of business.

Expenses are an issue too,
but mainly,
it's the lack of business.

That's from a lack of wins
both this year and last year.

We're also lacking a name,
Bjarke's name.
It's our biggest challenge.

It's because people think
they'll get Bjarke.

And you simply aren't
in Scandinavia

as much as you're in the US.

You don't travel as much,

meeting with contractors
and getting new contracts.

This is how you get
the contracts.

- Sure, but we have to
do something about that.

- I just think...

- That's just part
of the explanation.

- You know more
about that than I do.

I don't know how much Bjarke
contributes to our wins
and losses.

- We'll need to look into that.

There's a lot of weight on my
shoulders, in the sense that...

It's hard getting things done
the right way

without being there yourself.

In many ways,
we've moved very far,

but in other ways,
we haven't at all.

(horns tooting)

Last week, we lost
an interview competition

for drawing
a museum upstate.

And they then told us that
they were worried
about whether I had...

... whether I had the time.

And I think that's because...

... they didn't know
if the organization would be
strong enough if I didn't.

- (in English): Like this
hammerhead section...

- But it's also a question...

You know, if you feel
more comfortable...

(indistinct)

(buzzing sound)

(woman, continuing):
...especially if we go
for this option

where we add turnstiles
here... to go into the core...

(conversation drowning,
buzzing sound continues)

(buzzing sound continues,
indistinct conversation)

(eerie classical music)

(Bjarke): It seems to be one of
the ironies of the world

that the architects who had
the most innovative ideas

often end up being
the ones that had

the most petrifying impact
on architecture.

At least the way they
became misunderstood by others.

If you take a look
at Le Corbusier,

he started out
like this wild revolutionary.

He took some outdated values
and created new ones.

But eventually, he also became
the grandfather of modernism.

And in a way,
he built a stylistic prison

that was even more petrifying
than the one he replaced.

And then he ended up drowning.

There's actually
a lot of examples

of some of the greatest
architects

who had alternative ideas

and were about to really
change the world

ended up dying
from unnatural causes.

It happened in Manhattan.

Gaudí,
the great Catalan architect,

he had this plan
for a grand hotel

that was gonna be built
on the site that became
the World Trade Center site.

It was a radical alternative to
the typical American skyscraper.

If it would have been built,

it could really have changed
the way not only New York looks

but the whole world looks.

But he never built it because
he got hit by a tram and died.

The great American architect
Louis Kahn

also didn't finish
some of his last works.

He was found dead in the
men's room at Penn Station.

Carlo Scarpa,
the great Italian architect,

fell down a flight of stairs
and broke his neck and died.

Eero Saarinen,

probably my favourite
American architect,

he died from complications after
brain surgery

at the age of only 51.

So somehow, you really need
to lay some bricks
while you are here.

The building you are
building now could be your last.

(classical music, buzzing sound)

I hate it.

I hate it.

Like, this is not happening.

It's so institutional.

It looks like some, like,

lame ass conference centre
for the Social Democrats

somewhere in Northern Jutland.
That is never going to happen.

I said I could live with black.

But it can't be the blue.
I'm sorry.

I thought we had a little bit
of a good thing going.

Why the fuck
did you show it?

- It's my fault. 'Cause
I kinda liked it, but...

- Let's take it out.

- And why did they
even get that choice?

I think in general
we should not show options.

- And if they ask
specifically for alternatives,

then what are we
supposed to do?

- Give them two
that are both nice.

When can we close this?

Is there a deadline?

- I think we are finishing
very soon.

- Have we set a date?

We have to set a date.

Don't we have a schedule
that says:

"There's no more money - for
anyone - after this date?"

- There is a schedule
that basically,

by March, everything
has to be done.

- Which date?
- April 1st.

- Then we have to say
that at that point,

we are not going to change...
- Anything, no, we can't.

- Not even a pattern
on a wallpaper.

(indistinct) We need to get on
with our lives.

- Yeah.

But I think that...

- I think the few times
I've participated,

we've done a bit better.

But then I don't show up
to the next meeting

and then
things get bad again.

That's why I think we have
to make a final meeting.

- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.

- I mean...
silver looks totally grey.

- But they have, like,
different ones over there.

- That's the front.

There is nothing metal
about it. It's grey.

It's like living
in a grey building.

If I saw someone who had
done this, I would hate them.

- Hi. How's it going?

You guys are
not wearing helmets.

That's like a lawsuit
waiting to happen.

(greetings overlapping)

- So, you took...
- Hi.

- Hi.

- We have a few suggestions.
- Uh-huh.

On fit and finish
and that type of stuff?

- Our biggest thing is,
when we saw it...

It looks a little bit grey,
right?

- What?
- It's the only thing.

Maybe the most important
thing.

- Which is what?
- That it looks very grey.

We had a hope that
it would look more silver.

This is what we were
going for in the beginning.

- Isn't it just a difference in
colour that you're suggesting?

It sounds like you are
suggesting more than that.

- It's a difference in colour in
the sense that it's not a paint.

It's also that it is...

like, according to our
sustainability lady,

a better product.

- How do you repair anodized
if it gets scratched?

- They say, to a certain extent,

it's supposed to be
self-healing,

but a real scratch...

- But I think it might not show
as much as a real scratch

if it's the same material.

(in Danish): It was fucking
awful, so horrible.

(groaning)

They'd made too many
compromises.

That's not at all
what I want to build.

My one rule is we don't build
anything...

with painted surfaces
on the outside

because it doesn't age well.
It just looks like paint.

They argued it looks the same.
The fact is, it doesn't at all.

That just looked like a dead,
grey, horrible building.

(city soundscape)

(sirens wailing
in the distance)

This is from Lennox Hill
Radiology and Medical Imaging
Associates.

They made this brain scan.

And...

Basically, there's a lot of
stuff they didn't find,

but what they did find is

a small cyst on the
right side of the brain.

They say it measures...

... 0.5 times,
0.7 times 0.4 cm.

That's something
like this, you see?

But what the hell do I know?

Dammit. Dammit.

And then they'll have
to make a hole in the skull
if you want to remove it.

I can't take it.
Of course I'd do it,
but this is really bad.

(sirens wailing in the distance)

(in English):
- Hi, how are you?
- How's it going?

Thanks.

(birdsong)

(parakeet screeching softly)

(in Japanese):
Thank you.
- My pleasure.

(sighing, speaking English):

Imagine if you are unable
to work for more than
an hour or two

and then you get so bad
headaches that you have
to lie down and...

and rest.

Then that basically makes you
unable to do

any of the things you've
always been working towards,

all of the things
you've dreamt of.

And I'm 40 now

and in very basic terms,

this is what I've been able
to do in the first 40 years
of my life.

And probably I should be able
to do roughly the same
in the second half.

But if at this point...

And I would almost say that...

...life is probably progressive
rather than proportional.

So let's say if these are
the first 40 years of my life,

then all of this...

is all the stuff
I won't be able to do.

And if this is where I suddenly
become unable to function...

...then you know...

it's almost like you won't be
able to contribute meaningfully.

And if that's what's happening
now...

And it feels like
you almost just...

...could lie down and wait
for the time to pass
and everything to be over.

(classical music,
buzzing sound)

(classical music continues)

On the one hand, you want it
to be part of the memorial.

It's like the last tower
that's missing

and has to be part
of the brotherhood of towers
that frame the memorial.

On the other hand, we also want
it to feel part of Tribeca.

Consider it like a vertical
village of Tribeca blocks.

- I think what I really
like about what you did

is that it's not just
the volume,
the size of the building.

It's the way it's articulated
urbanistically,

you know, particularly from...

...not just from the
south, but from the north...

It has a very
interesting profile, I think.

It's going to set a good,
new standard

that the profile of a building
is very important.

It's not just about how big
it is, how high it is.
- Yeah!

- So I think you did
a fantastic job on this.

- I'm very impressed.
- Thank you.

- Really. Very impressed.
Okay, congratulations.

- It's an honour!

- You did a fantastic job.
And we want to see it.

(Bjarke): The site of the World
Trade Center is, of course,

unique because of
its symbolic significance,

because of the events of 9/11.

But it's also
unique urbanistically

because it's located
in the encounter

between the skyscrapers
of the financial district...

...and the more traditional
almost European scale

of the Tribeca neighborhood,

with the city blocks
and the streets with parks.

So we thought,

What if we could actually use

the last building at the World
Trade Center site

as a way to weave the
two neighbourhoods together?

We sort of imagined
making a tower

that consists of a series
of blocks stacked
on top of each other.

They have little parks
and plazas all the way up.

From one angle,

it actually expands a little
bit towards the top.

From the other angle
it is actually getting
smaller and smaller.

Almost like a giant
staircase to heaven.

You can say that the south tip
of Manhattan,

is probably the closest thing

to building on the main stage
where the entire world can see.

- I saw you on that
video standing at the corner.

- We had a great meeting
with Daniel Libeskind.

- Good. He is happy.
- It couldn't have gone better.

- Perfect!
- So I think it's a good start.

- Good. I'm...
It's okay, we're often...

- This is a site that has great
meaning for so many people.

You have to find the right
balance

between commemorating
what happened here

in a respectful way

but also making sure that
the living city of New York

gets a place to keep being
the lively city that it is.

- When we first got together
and I looked at Tower Two,

my first reaction was that
this building was going
to fall over.

I said: "Let me think
about this.

I got to ponder this
a little bit."

And I remember going home

and looking at myself
in the mirror and saying:

"You know, Silverstein, it's
time you became more flexible.

As you're getting old,
you're getting more rigid,

you're getting more inflexible.

It's time you began
to lighten up, loosen up,

and listen to what others
are saying to you.

Especially when it comes
to a field

they know and understand
very well."

But I must add you have a...

...a flow of creativity -
of creative juices -

that is nothing short
of remarkable.

You also have a terrific team
with you

of people who want to excel

and are striving
for excellence

at the highest possible level.

So working with you,
working with your team

I found to be an extremely...

fascinating and enjoyable
experience.

(Bjarke in Danish):
The projects we're working on

will be ready in five,
six or seven years.

So I'm thinking we'll need to
get some short-term projects
too.

At the end of the day,
you only get 20 or 40 buildings

before your time is up.

In terms of what I've
accomplished as an architect

I think I'm doing quite well.

But I probably thought

I'd have a family and children
when I turned 40.

I mean, I thought so
when I was 15 or 20.

That was what I thought
about then.

So it felt strange
to not have that,

in terms of your love life,
when you turned 40.

It was frustrating.

I know I've only just fallen
in love,

but I feel confident that the
reason I didn't get any further

in terms of my love life
is because I only just met her.

Ruth is the lovely Spanish woman
who lives here.

She moved to New York
two months ago.

She moved into this mess
that I'm still not done with.

I asked some of my
friends who trade jewellery

to look for engagement rings.

The reason
I haven't proposed yet

is because I can't find
the right ring.

That's a horrible reason
not to get married.

(woman, in English): Bjarke?
- Baby.

Are you hanging that up now?

- Yes, I was panicking.

- How's it going?
- Good.

Looking good.

- It's nice, huh?

I think it's gonna go fast now.

Welcome home.
- Thank you.

(soft music)

(in Danish):
Please lie down on your back.

(sighing)

- Let's give it a go.

Why does the whole body
need to go into that tube?

- Your head has to lie
at the centre,

so the rest of the body
has to follow.

- Damn it. Is this all right?
- Yes, it's perfect.

That's it.
Let's get you inside.

- Are you doing all right?
- Nah.

- Just breathe.
I'll bring you out.
- Yes, please.

- I'm just a little
claustrophobic.
- That's okay.

It's not unusual.
- Goddammit.

- Do I have to go
all the way in?
- Yes.

- Can we wait
for a minute and...?

- And see if your pulse
will slow down.

- Goddammit.
- Right.

(exhaling softly)

- I'm not afraid of heights
at all,

but I do have some sort
of claustrophobia.

- Ready, Bjarke?
- Okay. Let's do it.

We'll make two scans.

The first one takes two
minutes, the next takes three.

(classical music)

(in English):
Hey, baby. Good morning.

How's it going?

So... you know
that I was going to...

I was gonna check up
after that concussion

that they found this thing
in my brain.

So I did the MRI
this morning and...

Everything is perfectly normal
according to age.

Whatever that means.

At least it looks like
I'm not going to die

from a brain tumour
one of the next days.

Exactly.

Yeah. So you're gonna have
to stick with me
a little bit longer.

Okay, baby...

Yes, I'll see you later today.
Ciao.

The funny thing is...

Theoretically, now, roughly
half the courtyard is in shade.

But because it's already
lit up here, you come in here

and this feels more like a...

like a forest.

Then it becomes
more and more like a park.

This is going to be
this paddle pond for the kids.

We built a
whole facade mock up.

It was like painted aluminum
modules, aluminum facade.

But then we actually won
the battles

so in the end, all the
modules are actually anodized.

- Over the past decade

Bjarke Ingels has emerged

as a major creative force
in world architecture.

Rem Koolhaas writes: "Bjarke
is the first major architect

who disconnected the
profession completely
from angst.

He threw out the ballast
and soared.

With that he is in tune with
the thinkers of Silicon Valley

who want to make
the world a better place."

According to Time Magazine,

he is one of the 100
most influential people
in the world today.

(applause)

- Thank you, sir.
Anything else for you, sir?

- No.

(in Danish):
Let's have a look.

(in English): How far are you
from being done?

- Seven minutes.
- Fantastic.

Baby? Can you tie a bow tie?
No?

Maybe I'm gonna try to go down

and see if some of the guys
in the reception can.

- Okay.

- "How to...

...tie a bow tie."

- Stop talking and start tying.

- Can you tie a bow tie?
- Me? No. Sorry.

- It's impossible without...
(indistinct)

Do you have a mirror? No?

Hi, baby. I'm gonna leave this
with you.

- Are you okay?
- Yes, we'll do it in the car.

- I'm sorry, Bjarke.

- It's a beautiful dress, baby.

You look beautiful.

- Okay. I think it's there.

- I love it.

Thank you, baby.
- You're welcome.

(laughter)

- That's so funny.
- Now we're just gonna relax.

We should get drunk.

You look beautiful.

You look beautiful.
- You too.

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