Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect

[Music] [Music] I'd like to spend the next 40 minutes trying to tell you a little bit about some of the ideas that have evolved in our practice over the last 11 years maybe looking a little bit at what could be the role played by architects or architecture in society and and I think first of all architects shouldn't just be designers of beautiful facades or even an expressive sculptures we should become designers of ecosystems where we channel not only the flow of people through our cities and buildings but also the flow of resources and into the sort of double system of economy and ecology and the reason for this sort of expanded role of architecture is is found in in the atmosphere you can trace in this image it's a photo taken at the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen two years ago and as you can see on the faces of Brown and Sarkozy and Mackel and even Obama it wasn't exactly a party it was a complete failure none of the goals that have been established for the summit were reached and the journals of discussion about sustainability was drowning this of common misconception that sustainability is a question of how much of our existing life quality are we prepared to sacrifice in order to afford being sustainable so generally this sort of Protestant idea that it has to hurt to do good so when we were asked to look at the Danish pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo that was dealing with sustainable cities we were thinking what about a different kind of sustainability what if sustainable cities and buildings could actually increase life quality and enjoyment so like shortly we try to condense all of the elements of the sustainable city life into a pavilion that became like a looped streetscape complete with the blue bicycle lanes of a of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen City Bikes that we've had for the last 20 years a system of free bicycles that means that you could basically bicycle through the except Avedon and experience how fun it is to ride your bike through the city 37% of the Copenhagen is commute by bicycle two years ago there was an 11 day traffic jam in China so some poor bastard was stuck in his car for 11 days that's that's the opposite of human enjoyment so you could also bicycle through the exhibition and also making it the perfect exhibition for impatient people because you could bicycle through the entire museum and out again in just 2 minutes without missing anything also in Copenhagen and Shanghai both port cities but in Copenhagen our harbours water has become so clean that you can swim in it so in the middle of the industrial port you can actually serve a jump right into the water you don't have to drive for hours to get to the beach it's almost like Cape Town in that sense but to give the visitors this experience we created a Harbor bath in the middle of the pavilion allowing them to experience how clean if not how cold Danish Harbor waters and finally to attract their attention we found a common denominator between them again China is that in the Chinese public school curriculum they have three fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen including The Little Mermaid the national symbol of Denmark so we thought as a way of getting them to come we would simply move the Little Mermaid not a copy but the actual mermaid would go to China for six months when the Danish Nationalist Party which is the essentially the Danish equivalent of the tea party heard about this they tried to pass a law specifically against moving the mermaid and I actually had to go to Parliament and argue her case and as you can see we got her we also had to get her through Chinese customs and and into the pavilion in in her absence we invited the the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to make a piece and what he did that he installed a Chinese surveillance camera in the pavilion the same camera that the Chinese state has installed in front of his studio but this one was actually part of an installation called the mermaid exchange that was trained sitting transmitting a live image to Copenhagen where so like the the tourists that would go in vain would see that at least she was okay but more importantly it became like for six months it became like a loophole in the Great Firewall of China becoming the only place where you had like a live uncensored transmission from China to the rest of the world so essentially the Danish pavilion became our first sort of a venture into this of idea of hedonistic sustainability that sustainable cities and architecture can increase our our life quality another sort of element we've been looking at is architectural alchemy the idea that by mixing different ingredients you can actually create if not gold then at least added value the first example we did a project called the mountain in Copenhagen where we essentially create it's almost like a little piece of Cape Town in otherwise completely flat Copenhagen a mountain of houses with Gardens where you have like the splinters of a suburban lifestyle your kids can run out and play but it's you know in the middle of a city block and this is made possible by putting it on top of a big parking structure so the parking serves the whole area there's a single funicular elevator that gives access to all of the apartments and to make the parking naturally ventilated and naturally illuminated we clad it in a perforated aluminum that allows you to breathe the holes in the aluminum have five different sizes so and because the holes look dark on the bright background of the aluminum from a distance it turns into a gigantic rasterized image for free so we commissioned this Japanese Himalaya photographer to turn the entire parking facade into this gigantic urban artwork that so we took this idea one step further with the same client in a new project on the outskirts of Copenhagen this is this Lake is really the city limits and it's going to be part of this new neighborhood and essentially we mixed shops and offices that like to be close to the customers on the ground with the townhouses and apartments and because commercial space is deeper than residential space we suddenly get like almost like a mountain path that moves up it's really under on the city limits you have this sort of clash of life-forms but what happens because of the difference in with the townhouses they sit on top of the commercial spaces and what happens is that we're not only allowed to optimize the conditions for the individual programs by Princeton in this case we lift the townhouses up in the Sun and the view on top of the offices facing north but we also allow for the possibility of spontaneous social encounters the creation of a community the the creation of a feeling of a neighborhood that is traditionally restricted to occurring on the ground it's actually invited to invade the three-dimensional space of the urban block so the eighth house in Copenhagen as we call the project is not just you know a beautiful facade design or an interesting sculpture it's really a three-dimensional urban condition that carves out various niches for for public life throughout the the space of the of the city block so it becomes this sort of manmade extension of the of the landscape of Copenhagen where the eighth house crosses itself we took out all the floors and all of the amenities are tied together in this vertical social space that ties the entire then you're the ground floor all the way up to a roof terrace and the sort of that the general idea is that you see this is how flat Copenhagen is but this is really the only place in Copenhagen where you can actually go for a walk and enjoy the view of of your of your city it's almost like a manmade Table Mountain in in miniature and then the general idea is is synergy that you can see the the facades of the officers become the handrails of the street that this the handrail itself becomes the street lights so like each program somehow collaborates and improves the condition for for the others so like this is almost an example where a building becomes part of the streetscape of a city we recently open an office in New York and are starting to do projects in North America one of the first examples is in Vancouver downtown where Granville bridge hits the city the city imagine two new towers one of them on the site belonging to our client and Vancouver is the second most valuable real estate market in the world because of a massive Chinese immigration so if you take a typical apartment eighty five square meters and you move it one flow up it increases in value with $15,000 also there was a park right next to the site where we're not allowed to cast shadows after ten o'clock in the morning so you can see the site is totally tortured by this this highway bridge so we started mapping the constraints there's a setback requirement from the street there's another setback from the highway then there's like almost a deal-breaker which is a 30 metre setback from all of the highways because the city doesn't want anybody living and looking straight out at the add cars and finally because of the park our footprint is reduced to a tiny 600 square metre triangle which is almost too small to to build but we thought like since our client owns the whole site and since the 30 meter distance has to do with creating a minimum distance to the cars as soon as we come up in the air we can come back out and basically maximize the amount of the nicest apartments so since you're almost like this wedge [Applause] so basically as you drive over the bridge it's like somebody pulling a curtain aside sort of welcome to Vancouver and what also happens is that you as you move around the building that light and shadow is going to give it this sort of gracious curve and otherwise quite simple tower and if you see it on the skyline it's really like one of the boys but with this sort of feminine attribute it's almost like when a flatiron got built it was like a moment in Manhattan history where real estate value steel construction and elevators suddenly made a site that had previously been unavailable into a sort of one of the nicest landmarks that's now the namesake for a whole neighborhood in Manhattan and it's a little bit like this except ours we call it not the Flatiron but the fat iron because it sort of bulges out over the waistline so you can say like in a lot of our projects even though they're privately commissioned they haven't in a very sort of intense relationship with the public realm in some projects we actually worked much more directly with public clients we did a project on the waterfront of Copenhagen the nests a sort of a youth club and workshops under this carpet of an undulating wouldn't June landscape almost like turning what would otherwise been sort of an accumulation of sheds into this undulating public space on the waterfront of of Copenhagen we got invited to look at a competition for the city hall of Tallinn the capital of Estonia Estonia as this bill Italian is this beautiful unesco world heritage medieval village and the job was to consolidate all of the different public departments into a new City Hall and we thought instead of having you know this classic dichotomy of the politicians inside and the public outside we would hover the city hall above a continuous public domain extending the Town Square into what we call the public service marketplace that is open for the citizens to walk in and interact with the public servants and see the politicians at work we designed one building for each department we allowed them to overlap to create you know a continuous public institution in one place the citizens of Thailand could access the roof and enjoy the skyline of the of the of the medieval village and finally you can see this is the historical city hall it has a spire and in this in the master plan they were anticipating a spire because they can't imagine a city hall without a spire so we thought let's put the City Council in the tower let's give them an incredibly generous space for the political debate the ceiling is made as a gigantic mirror so with when politicians have to make difficult decisions all they have to sort of do is look up and they get this sort of perfect periscope overview of the city that they're messing with as a side effect when the angry citizens gather to demonstrate they get this of perfect bird's-eye view and they can see if they can see them if some politicians are sleeping or absent on doing 32 years of playing Angry Birds on their iPhones so we call it the the Democratic periscope that it combines political overview with public insight happily the City Council liked the idea so we're breaking ground in April and of course like when you're doing a City Hall it's very much about you know of course like a lot of practical issues and the invitation of the public but it's also very much about the identity in this case of a sort of a post-soviet democracy that really wants to be about political transparency another way another case we did that really deals with them with identity is for the national art gallery of Greenland as you might know Greenland as part of the Royal Danish Kingdom but they recently acquired independence and the first project they're doing is the it's going to be the national art gallery which is like right on the waterfront of nuke you can see it's right next to these like boxy buildings they are social housing built by the Danish in the 70s where they move the fishermen into these nice apartments that completely disrespect the landscape so we thought like we made the art gallery into this circle all active vernacular topologies are circular because of the minimum circumference and the maximum contained volume it captures a small courtyard for sculptures but because it doesn't ignore the topography it really follows the dramatic landscape it becomes this melted circle that opens towards the the water almost like this sort of oasis in a very harsh climate and following this sort of undulating geometry the the circle just lifts up and invites people to enter into the museum and sort of one of the main political points is that as soon as you enter into this sort of eye of the storm you have this the melted courtyard frames a view of the Greenlandic landscape a view of the chromatic nature and the sculptures outside and the Greenlandic artworks but all of the Danish architecture has been edited out so it's like the sort of a little sort of a dramatic sanctuary in a sort of City contaminated by by Danish modern architecture that's all in in one case we took public participation to the extreme and and basically sort of almost resigned authorship to to public participation this is a photo taken right next to our office in Copenhagen some years ago you might remember that Denmark had a cartoon crisis a provincial Danish newspaper commissioned 210 cartoonists to show that in the name of Liberty of speech we can make fun of everything including the Prophet Mohammed it pissed off like a billion Muslims here in Syria and here this is our office a group of young young men from Copenhagen with the slamming background that were really pissed off by this so it was clear that copenhagen is no longer like this little cute danish sort of a homogeneous culture it's really part of the global world no place more than right next to our office this urban space a mile long a kilometer 1/2 which is in the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in all of Denmark it has 60 different nationalities inhabiting this small area around the place and I'm not going to explain the whole project just this one aspect it basically contains what we call the the Red Square this is a photo from the construction site so it's not a photoshopped collage but essentially you have different shades of red that allow for different activities next to the Red Square is the black market where everything is black and the Green Park where even the sidewalks are arguing and and in all this instead of plastering it with sort of Danish design we reached out to the local community and asked people to participate in what you could call a global best urban practice you can almost consider all of planet earth as a gigantic urban laboratory where we are constantly everywhere conducting experiments in how to best inhabit our cities and basically ask people to nominate elements from their other home country to contribute to this this urban space and the main idea is that we don't eat Indian food or Chinese food to be nice to the Chinese it has nothing to do with political correctness because sometimes you really crave Chinese food and it's the same with the Moroccan fountain it's not to be nice to the Moroccans but it's because Morocco has an amazing sort of tradition for architecture water features so now we sort of recreating this Moroccan fountain in in Copenhagen we have a Muscle Beach that combines elements from from Venice in a Los Angeles with a bangkok of china and this outrageous Estonian swing we're actually encountering a liability issue with us with this wing we have a slide from Ukraine it's actually from Chernobyl so we had to make a copy because the original is radioactive the square the sign on the Red Square is the sign from the Red Square and even if you take something you know simple as bollards in this case from Ghana they become like these incredibly exotic objects in grey Scandinavia like bicycle racks you need a lot of bicycle racks and in Copenhagen this one from Canada that can also pump your bike and when you look at the benches it's almost like a sociological study of different cultures from Mexico and Spain this s-curves bench that allows you to look the person you're sitting next to into the eyes from Bilgin the opposite everybody's looking away from each other you have so essentially it's almost like an architectural Safari looking at these different urban practices this nice octopus from from Japan a snow cannon from Sweden I'm sad to say that we have no South African objects so you should move to Copenhagen then we'll we'll make one bird cages from from Rotterdam we even found palm trees in China that naturally grow in snow so now we have these palm trees that really naturally grow in our climate finally one of the main reminders that you're in a foreign culture when you're traveling is actually paradoxically the advertisement so as a series of sculptural lamps we install these neon signs that advertise stuff you can by in Denmark so so my favorite is a this is a dentist in Qatar and of course you have on the red square like this sort of ensemble of a former communist advertisement the Moscow vid was supposed to be the worst car ever produced so you can say like anyway by tapping into this sort of cultural diversity of the local neighborhood and assigning authorship to the citizens we you know of course accelerate a sense of ownership and integration but also we end up creating an urban space that really that doesn't you know perpetuate this sort of petrified perception of of Denmark as being a homogeneous culture but really reveals the true cultural diversity of contemporary Copenhagen that brings me to the last idea that that has sort of started to to interest us in in the office social infrastructure and basically one of the ideas is that there's almost like this of rule in in life that the the infrastructure of the industry of the past gets reinvented as the infrastructure for or the framework for social life and culture of the present like one example is that this is Park City Utah it used to be a mining town and in fact the first ski lift in the world was the repurposed mining lift that used to drag silver down from the mountain and when the mines dried out they had to do something so they started dragging skiers up the mountain so essentially the plumes of smoke have been replaced by snow canons today also Park City has become the home of the Sun Dance Festival and in Park City there's an art center called kimball which is actually a repurposed garage infrastructure for cars turned into art museum and right next to it you can see this building it's the coalition mining building it's basically where this the mining lifts used to enter into town and get loaded onto the trains sadly it burned down in the 80s it was use of landmark of Park City the the mining town and now it's a home for the Sundance festival and has like a this Art Center and we were asked to sort of make a new AG museum so basically we leave the existing garage where it is for Learning Center and then we add the the galleries and the the lobby and the restaurant in this new consolidated building that the lower gallery for artificial light and media is sort of a nested into the hill and on top the Abigail with daylight and and views is sort of turned to look up Hiba Avenue which is the main arrival from from the mountain to town sort of almost like a friendly building that turns it head and sort of welcome to to Park City sandwich in the public spaces between the two galleries an integer of how do you integrate a new building and a new architecture into this of historical like raw charm of a former mining town and sort of a logging town the majority of the immigrants were actually Scandinavians and they brought with them the log cabin construction of overlapping logs that they also used for the mining shafts and for their homes and it has pins of rarified in various ways in Utah in this this is a corn silo that has these very elegant techtronic joints and even the the Navajos there hogan's the traditional houses are made with these logs massive logs that create complex curvilinear shapes and finally the Pacific Railroad that used to across the the Great Salt Lake is now decommissioned and there's a company that extracts the piles that have been marinated marinated in in salt for four decades and it's now this sort of recycled timber so we thought like we need to tap into this sort of industrial heritage and really try to do an actual log cabin we built the the model we almost make models out of foam in this case we really built the the building the way you would build the museum with these overlapping logs and the thickness of the massive wood allows us to create this sort of a gently curving shape with a completely traditional construction technique so it almost becomes like this massive abstract sculpture of massive wood in the city and it has exactly the same silhouette as the old coalition building so almost like Rhian voguing the ghosts of the past sort of reborn for a space for for art also the the the coalition building used to be the sub steel skeleton inside a wooden frame and the structure for the galleries because you need to climate control the the art pieces it's a steel structure that's like nested into this wooden frame and where all of the circulation is like really integrated in the and the wood frame so you see sort of the buildings of turning its head looking up and down Main Street as you enter you really follow the massive wood on the stairs moving up through the galleries the the restaurant that opens to the to the roof terrace of the existing building and finally sort of following the light and walking along the wood you you move off past the administration into the upper gallery where you have this beautiful view of the city and it becomes the first thing you see when you enter to town you can see the exhibition that's that's on in in the Kimbell so the way we look at it it almost becomes like the sort of the recreation of the ghosts of the coalition building that used to be the landmark of Park City the mining town and now reborn as this sort of gathering point for the new cultural life and art of the Park City so so in many ways like Park City is this typical example that this the infrastructure for the past gets reinvented as infrastructure for for cultural and social programs we did a project in in Copenhagen this is the the castle of Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet it also became unesco world heritage and as a result the Danish Maritime Museum which was inside the castle had to be kicked out and they had to put it inside or they proposed to put it inside this old drydock where they used to make ships but the museum program was twice the size of the dock itself so we would almost drown the the dock in museum and we thought it would be much more interesting to keep the as this big monumental 125 meter long 25 meter wide industrial space also right now the dark as you could see is full of water so when you empty it the the walls in such a bad state but we would have to reinforce the dark from the inside to take the pressure or from the outside so we thought if we're going to make new dark walls anyway why not leave enough space so we can nest the museum between the old and the new dark walls so essentially turning the museum brief inside out so that the museum really becomes like a giant hole in the ground like a big public space sunken into the into the city and there was this dilemma in the the project that UNESCO said that the museum had to be completely invisible to not disturb the view of the castle but the the client and the sponsors wanted some kind of architectural masterpiece to sort of attract visitors and by turning it into a void we could actually combine the need for invisibility with the desire for exposure we created a series of bridges one that takes you into the museum and contains galleries inside one for the oratorio and one for the cafe and essentially these bridges bring daylight into the museum even though everything is underground and actually underwater it becomes this like very sort of generously illuminated space so we did this project and we thought like it's going to be hard to win it because there was like one condition in the brief and that was that we were not supposed to build outside the dock and we built essentially the entire museum around the dock but the jury liked it and we won the competition but then something strange happened the Danish architects Association which is my union they sued the client for having chosen a project that broke the conditions of the brief they didn't say it was a bad idea that just said that you know they couldn't do it that seriously made me reconsider my membership of the Danish Architects Association but heavily our client had gotten so convinced about this idea that they decided they said okay we cancel the competition and we hire a big as our architects so now we start a construction and it's this a so now we started construction and is this it's actually the tallest building we've built in in in Denmark but it's 40 meters from 0 and down which is kind of surreal that brings me to the last last project that deals with a with this condition we got commissioned by of this sort of the interlace of public life and infrastructure we got commissioned by the ten municipalities of Copenhagen to look at a new master plan for the for the ten municipalities along a new proposed train line and we thought like if you're looking at at greater Copenhagen it we can't just look at Copenhagen or even just look at Denmark because like right on the other side of the water is Sweden and together they form the most prosperous and the most densely populated region in Scandinavia and simply by adding a four kilometer bridge we can turn it into an entire bi-national metropolitan loop where no area is further away than 40 minutes by train and it wouldn't just be like an infrastructure for you know for trains or highways it's also an infrastructure for waste management for water management for sewage systems for like a smart grid that combines the hydroelectricity of Sweden with the wind power of Denmark and also combines all of the most prosperous industries in in the region and sort of by creating a bi-national metropolitan region we also introduced pink in the Scandinavian flag for the first time and it actually has the same size as the San Francisco Bay Area so if in Italy it's a kind of well known quantity the only difference is that it happens on two sides of a of two different countries so the basic idea is that the the infrastructure is really nested together with the sort of the local urban densification so like the the instructure is really part of the the city space itself to give you an example of a concrete project within this this big a master plan we recently did a competition for a waste-to-energy power plant in the middle of the loop city it's in the middle of Copenhagen and it's essentially in Denmark we only landfill 4% of our waste for the 2% gets recycled and 54% is turned into we didn't have anything to do with this it was just good behaving Danes but essentially three kilos of household waste turns into four hours of domestic electricity and five hours of heating and seen as an energy source a ton of trash equals almost two barrels of oil but of course these waster energy power plants are big ugly factories they are necessarily replaced in the cities so how can you sort of make sure that they don't become ugly boxes that cast shadows on the neighbors and block the view this one is going to be the biggest and tallest building structure in Copenhagen right next to the Copenhagen marina and right next to where the local boys go waterskiing and and speaking of skiing we actually have a cold climate in Denmark we have snow but as you saw in Copenhagen it's completely flat we have no hills so we might not have mountains but now that we have mountains of trash we thought you know Copenhagen is happy go six hours by bus to go to this ski resort in the inside of Sweden so we can actually put it the same size on top of the power plant we know exactly how big the different machines have to be and instead of having some kind of a visitor center where schoolteachers drag the kids to force them to hear how trash turns into energy here you can take the elevator up to the roof and you can choose between a green a blue and a black ski slope so as miraculously we won the competition based on this idea so from 2016 you have to look out for the Danish competitors in the alpine skiing competitions because now we can actually you know ski at home also the the building is designed in such a way that it naturally filters daylight into the work spaces it uses natural illumination and natural ventilation as much as possible so you can say in many ways the ecosystem that I started with this idea of trying to design our city and buildings as entire ecosystems it's quite close to coming to fruition here cuz not only do we locally harvest the available resources the rain water the the daylight the natural ventilation but also together with the city we form an entire ecosystem almost like an urban metabolism lastly this is going to be the most clean waste-to-energy plant in the world smoke coming out of the chimney is completely non-toxic but it does still contain a certain amount of co2 so we worked with realities United Berlin based artists and I teach a group to design the mouth of the chimney in such a way that it accumulates co2 and when there's 100 kilos it puffs a gigantic smoke ring and of course we like this as the ultimate artistic expression of heuristic sustainability that what used to be a problem pollution turns into something playful that puffs smoke wings but more importantly one of the main drivers of behavioral change is knowledge that if people don't know they can't act and because you know co2 emissions is so abstract nobody knows what a ton of co2 is if you come to Copenhagen in 16 all you have to do is count the smoke rings and when you've counted 10 of them we just emitted one ton of co2 actually interesting as a side effect we sort of we took the idea of skiing and put it on the power plant now we actually just got a job in in Finland putting a ski slope on top of a ski hotel sort of bringing the idea back to to where it came from you say like one of the last objections that I that I get when I percent these ideas especially now that we moved to to America is that everybody is saying yeah yeah but you know this only works in like semi socialist Scandinavia where you know everybody has money and nobody cares about anything but the environment but but actually we got the reason we opened up an office in New York and a half ago was that we got contacted by the Durst family a Manhattan real estate developer to look at a site in Hell's Kitchen right on the West Side waterfront a beautiful location on the water but right next to a power plant and a waste management facility not not combined but separated and and the and the West Side Highway so we thought like it's a beautiful location but it's a very sort of industrial neighborhood we should almost create an urban oasis for the residents and in a way you can say the Copenhagen courtyard the idea of creating like an oasis in the middle of the city is at the architectural scale what Central Park is at the urban scale sort of an urban oasis surrounded by density so the idea became like what happens when you combine a New York skyscraper with a copenhagen courtyard essentially what would a cold scraper look like so we place the the courtyard next to the Hellena this Tower it's not only owned by our client it's also named after his daughter so we preserve all of the views and then basically to give it man density we lift up the northeast corner to 460 feet maximizing daylight exposure to the south and the west and also preserving the views of the river creating this sort of rather unusual new silhouette on the Westside waterfront like almost like a sort of a completely distorted copenhagen courtyard building and the courtyard which is traditionally like a secret kept for the tenants or for Google Earth becomes like a major part of the of the public perception of the of the building a spire seen from the east you have terraces sunken into the roof scape and because of the asymmetry all of the apartments and the code add itself actually has views of the Hudson River and the west side so you can say like the sort of the urban rejuvenation of the former industrial piers of of Manhattan that are now sort of starting to become the Hudson River Park starts to sort of invade the city fabric itself nesting a green space for for social life in the middle of the of the Manhattan city block so we are scheduled to break ground in at the end of March this month a historical moment for our little office and in four years this is what it would look like driving up and down the West Side Highway yeah I'm up at Brooklyn now I'm down in Tribeca right next to the narrow but I'll be hood fearful I'm innocent and since i made it here i can make it anywhere get a love me everywhere i use the cop in harlem olamide's in meeting Connells right the elbow broadway pull me back to that mcdonalds hook into my stash spot 560 space street catch me in the kitchen like the simmons whipping pastry bags we're living it long in the world trade rome to the king your compliment in piracy dear sweet friend [Music] actually just to finish on a on a happy loving note the the West 57 building the courts way but it's not going to be our first built structure in Manhattan because actually for the lucky ones of you you notice that it was a Valentine's Day recently and every year they do a small art piece on on Times Square and we did this little piece that's like a forest of acrylic columns that as people interact with it it starts beating a stronger and stronger so we made this little a little film that also expresses our love for our new home in New York the aunt Angela be till I can get my satisfaction I get no satisfaction satisfaction [Music] you [Music] you my [Applause]

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Length: 41min 22sec (2482 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 26 2016