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From the Ted Talk by Joshua Prince-Ramus: Behind the design of Seattle's library
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
I'm going to show now the last project. This also is an _______ ______. They inverted the whole idea of development. They came to us and they said — unlike normal developers — they said, "We want to start out by providing a contemporary art museum in __________. That's our main goal." And so instead of being a developer that sees an opportunity to make money, they saw an ability to be a ________ in their downtown. And the fact that they wanted to support the ____________ art museum actually built their pro forma, so they worked in reverse. And that pro forma led us to a mixed-use building that was very large, in order to support their aspirations of the art, but it also ______ up opportunities for the art itself to collaborate, interact with commercial spaces that actually _______ more and more want to work within. And it also charged us with ________ about how to have something that was both a single ________ and a credible sort of sub-building.
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- louisville
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Original Text
I'm going to show now the last project. This also is an unusual client. They inverted the whole idea of development. They came to us and they said — unlike normal developers — they said, "We want to start out by providing a contemporary art museum in Louisville. That's our main goal." And so instead of being a developer that sees an opportunity to make money, they saw an ability to be a catalyst in their downtown. And the fact that they wanted to support the contemporary art museum actually built their pro forma, so they worked in reverse. And that pro forma led us to a mixed-use building that was very large, in order to support their aspirations of the art, but it also opened up opportunities for the art itself to collaborate, interact with commercial spaces that actually artists more and more want to work within. And it also charged us with thinking about how to have something that was both a single building and a credible sort of sub-building.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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