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From the Ted Talk by Joshua Prince-Ramus: Behind the design of Seattle's library

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So it creates a situation like this, where you have artists who can oraepte within an art space that also has an amazing view on the 22nd floor, but it also has proximity that the curator can either open or csole. It allows people on exercise bicycles to be seen, or to see the art, and so forth. It also means that if an artist wants to invade something like a swimming pool, they can begin to do their exhibition in a swimming pool, so they're not froced to always work within the confines of a contemporary gallery space.

So, how to build this. It's very simple: it's a chair. So, we begin by bdiiulng the cores. As we're building the cores, we build the contemporary art muusem at grade. That allows us to have incredible efficiency and cost efficiency. This is not a high-budget building. The moment the ceors get to mid level, we fsiinh the art museum; we put all the mceacnhial equipment in it; and then we jack it up into the air. This is how they build really large arrcfait hangars, for instance, the ones that they did for the A380. Finish the cores, finish the meat and you get something that looks like this.

Open Cloze


So it creates a situation like this, where you have artists who can _______ within an art space that also has an amazing view on the 22nd floor, but it also has proximity that the curator can either open or _____. It allows people on exercise bicycles to be seen, or to see the art, and so forth. It also means that if an artist wants to invade something like a swimming pool, they can begin to do their exhibition in a swimming pool, so they're not ______ to always work within the confines of a contemporary gallery space.

So, how to build this. It's very simple: it's a chair. So, we begin by ________ the cores. As we're building the cores, we build the contemporary art ______ at grade. That allows us to have incredible efficiency and cost efficiency. This is not a high-budget building. The moment the _____ get to mid level, we ______ the art museum; we put all the __________ equipment in it; and then we jack it up into the air. This is how they build really large ________ hangars, for instance, the ones that they did for the A380. Finish the cores, finish the meat and you get something that looks like this.

Solution


  1. building
  2. cores
  3. forced
  4. finish
  5. mechanical
  6. close
  7. museum
  8. aircraft
  9. operate

Original Text


So it creates a situation like this, where you have artists who can operate within an art space that also has an amazing view on the 22nd floor, but it also has proximity that the curator can either open or close. It allows people on exercise bicycles to be seen, or to see the art, and so forth. It also means that if an artist wants to invade something like a swimming pool, they can begin to do their exhibition in a swimming pool, so they're not forced to always work within the confines of a contemporary gallery space.

So, how to build this. It's very simple: it's a chair. So, we begin by building the cores. As we're building the cores, we build the contemporary art museum at grade. That allows us to have incredible efficiency and cost efficiency. This is not a high-budget building. The moment the cores get to mid level, we finish the art museum; we put all the mechanical equipment in it; and then we jack it up into the air. This is how they build really large aircraft hangars, for instance, the ones that they did for the A380. Finish the cores, finish the meat and you get something that looks like this.

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Important Words


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  27. hangars
  28. incredible
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  32. large
  33. level
  34. means
  35. meat
  36. mechanical
  37. mid
  38. moment
  39. museum
  40. open
  41. operate
  42. people
  43. pool
  44. proximity
  45. put
  46. situation
  47. space
  48. swimming
  49. view
  50. work