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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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Every one of those columns has a Chinese mountain tree, semi-mature mountain tree on top. And nourishment and ________ and ________ and moisture, and because every column is the best _____ to put a heavy load. And it has hundreds of outdoor terraces and it has shading and it has, we hope, the necessary complexity to create the human engagement in a _______ at such a scale. We also worked with local _______ to _____ their work into our vision, to really make a _____________ project together. And that carries through all the way to the inside. And this project opened at the end of last year, the first half of it. And we have 100,000 people going to it every day. And it wasn't just about trees and plants, but even structural columns were our friends to humanize the project at such a scale.
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Original Text
Every one of those columns has a Chinese mountain tree, semi-mature mountain tree on top. And nourishment and drainage and lighting and moisture, and because every column is the best place to put a heavy load. And it has hundreds of outdoor terraces and it has shading and it has, we hope, the necessary complexity to create the human engagement in a project at such a scale. We also worked with local artists to embed their work into our vision, to really make a collaborative project together. And that carries through all the way to the inside. And this project opened at the end of last year, the first half of it. And we have 100,000 people going to it every day. And it wasn't just about trees and plants, but even structural columns were our friends to humanize the project at such a scale.
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