full transcript

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

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Every one of those columns has a Chinese mountain tree, semi-mature mountain tree on top. And nourishment and dgarnaie and lnihgtig and moisture, and because every column is the best pcale 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 pcojert at such a scale. We also worked with local aristts to eebmd their work into our vision, to really make a crolatolvbiae 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.

Open Cloze

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.

Solution

  1. drainage
  2. artists
  3. place
  4. lighting
  5. project
  6. collaborative
  7. embed

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.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

Important Words

  1. artists
  2. carries
  3. chinese
  4. collaborative
  5. column
  6. columns
  7. complexity
  8. create
  9. day
  10. drainage
  11. embed
  12. engagement
  13. friends
  14. heavy
  15. hope
  16. human
  17. humanize
  18. hundreds
  19. lighting
  20. load
  21. local
  22. moisture
  23. mountain
  24. nourishment
  25. opened
  26. outdoor
  27. people
  28. place
  29. plants
  30. project
  31. put
  32. scale
  33. shading
  34. structural
  35. terraces
  36. top
  37. tree
  38. trees
  39. vision
  40. work
  41. worked
  42. year