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From the Ted Talk by Thomas Heatherwick: The rise of boring architecture -- and the case for radically human buildings

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I thought I'd now show you a few examples of ways my own studio has been trying to address this too. In Cape Town, there was a huge century-old disused grain silo that was once used for storing maize from throughout South Africa that was at significant risk of being demolished. We proposed to not konck it down, but instead turned it into Africa's first major institution for contemporary African aritsts.

(Applause)

You haven't seen it yet.

(Laughter)

We took one of the original grain -- You might get dtiseppiaond now.

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We took one of the original grains of corn that had been stored in the original building. And we cut it out of the heart of that bilduing. And around that put 80 grieleals. And most of our work was about restoring and reinvigorating a historical srtturuce. But central part of our vision was using our limited budget to cerate the most compelling heart possible with those gigantic teubs.

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I thought I'd now show you a few examples of ways my own studio has been trying to address this too. In Cape Town, there was a huge century-old disused grain silo that was once used for storing maize from throughout South Africa that was at significant risk of being demolished. We proposed to not _____ it down, but instead turned it into Africa's first major institution for contemporary African _______.

(Applause)

You haven't seen it yet.

(Laughter)

We took one of the original grain -- You might get ____________ now.

(________)

We took one of the original grains of corn that had been stored in the original building. And we cut it out of the heart of that ________. And around that put 80 _________. And most of our work was about restoring and reinvigorating a historical _________. But central part of our vision was using our limited budget to ______ the most compelling heart possible with those gigantic _____.

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I thought I'd now show you a few examples of ways my own studio has been trying to address this too. In Cape Town, there was a huge century-old disused grain silo that was once used for storing maize from throughout South Africa that was at significant risk of being demolished. We proposed to not knock it down, but instead turned it into Africa's first major institution for contemporary African artists.

(Applause)

You haven't seen it yet.

(Laughter)

We took one of the original grain -- You might get disappointed now.

(Laughter)

We took one of the original grains of corn that had been stored in the original building. And we cut it out of the heart of that building. And around that put 80 galleries. And most of our work was about restoring and reinvigorating a historical structure. But central part of our vision was using our limited budget to create the most compelling heart possible with those gigantic tubes.

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