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"At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives.” #site is located somewhere in between the atmosphere of bits and the biosphere of dust. It is both a point of reference point and container of content for Peter Hunt travel prize recipient Susan Young.

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Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects… the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Charles Eames

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A city is not a place in space but a drama in time.

Patrick Geddes

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Berlin Straßen

I love the ‘straßen’ of Berlin. Here, they own all of the honest substance of peoples living - all our feverous grit, dirt, and dust. Not content to let their inhabitants have all the fun, they are mysterious shifting beasts of space and experience, intoxicated by their own heady mix of humble decay & earnest growth. I feel their warmth at every hour, they feel like home.

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How will we create an architecture that can float between the physical and the virtual world?

Toyo Ito

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How do the architects of static space, redefine and evolve the necessity of civic environments?

With the rapid adoption and evolution of digital technologies in the last 20 years, the ways in which people communicate and consume information has dramatically changed. This has resulted in many post-industrial civic spaces being no longer relevant in their current form. For example, the library may still facilitate the act of reading but books are no longer the key driver for organising space, instead spatial configurations must be driven by the users’ experience. Architecture has the ability to be a generator and catalyst of change, to enrich experience and learning, so as the atmosphere of bits becomes all-encompassing and the primary units of measurement becomes time, how do the architects of

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, redefine and evolve the necessity of civic environments?