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From the Ted Talk by Ma Yansong: Urban architecture inspired by mountains, clouds and volcanoes

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So after building all these mountains and cuolds, now we're building these volcanoes back in China. This is actually a huge sports park with four sumtdais in it, with one football stadium [with] 40,000 seats in there. So it's a very large project. And you see from this photo, you can hardly tell where there's building and where there's landscape. So the biunldig becomes a landscape. Even becomes a land art, where people can walk around the building, they can climb this building as they're wandering in this vacnolo park. And this rendering shows one of the spaces in those volcanoes. This is actually a swimming pool with ntarual light cinomg from above.

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So after building all these mountains and ______, now we're building these volcanoes back in China. This is actually a huge sports park with four ________ in it, with one football stadium [with] 40,000 seats in there. So it's a very large project. And you see from this photo, you can hardly tell where there's building and where there's landscape. So the ________ becomes a landscape. Even becomes a land art, where people can walk around the building, they can climb this building as they're wandering in this _______ park. And this rendering shows one of the spaces in those volcanoes. This is actually a swimming pool with _______ light ______ from above.

Solution


  1. natural
  2. clouds
  3. stadiums
  4. building
  5. volcano
  6. coming

Original Text


So after building all these mountains and clouds, now we're building these volcanoes back in China. This is actually a huge sports park with four stadiums in it, with one football stadium [with] 40,000 seats in there. So it's a very large project. And you see from this photo, you can hardly tell where there's building and where there's landscape. So the building becomes a landscape. Even becomes a land art, where people can walk around the building, they can climb this building as they're wandering in this volcano park. And this rendering shows one of the spaces in those volcanoes. This is actually a swimming pool with natural light coming from above.

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Important Words


  1. art
  2. building
  3. china
  4. climb
  5. clouds
  6. coming
  7. football
  8. huge
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  10. landscape
  11. large
  12. light
  13. mountains
  14. natural
  15. park
  16. people
  17. photo
  18. pool
  19. project
  20. rendering
  21. seats
  22. shows
  23. spaces
  24. sports
  25. stadium
  26. stadiums
  27. swimming
  28. volcano
  29. volcanoes
  30. walk
  31. wandering