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00:28 I'm sorry I can't speak any German. I won't invent it. I won't invent today.
00:34 I want to ask in advance for all my team and Ron and Maya and Peter and Bella to come forward
00:42 because although I'm always, my name is put up front, but this is really the work of many people
00:49 and I would like to call them and I would like them to come, at least stand in the front there.
00:56 First of all, I want to thank the city for making it possible for us all to really develop this project.
01:06 Patrick, please can you come forward?
01:11 Can I say, David, whoever.
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01:26 I must have one woman among them. Sarah, they are hiding. For some reason today they are shy.
01:32 Sarah Clumps, please. Anyway, I want to thank the city for making it possible,
01:39 to really make it possible to build this building which is the work and the development of these ideas for nearly 30 years.
01:48 It's a very rare opportunity I think for someone to say that we almost realized what I would call the theoretical project.
01:57 20 years ago, 10 years ago it was not seen as possible to achieve such a, I won't say a dream and ambition,
02:05 so I want to thank the city, I cannot say everybody's name, the president of the region,
02:12 the Volkswagen, I'm not very good with German names, but I have memorized Dr. Guthard's name
02:21 and the mayor's name, Mr. Schleniker, who really have supported me and loved me in a funny way for many years.
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02:36 I have a daily love-hate relationship with Dr. Guthard, but I love you, seriously.
02:41 I'm grateful to you, we all love you all, but I must say, I really think it's fantastic for the city to be able to allow me and my team,
02:53 Laura, where are you? You have to show an example that women can succeed in this profession.
03:01 Please, come out of this crowd.
03:04 Anyway, this team has really slaved in front of my eyes, literally, for the past 6 years.
03:13 And I know, Ryan and Peter, who are here, they've been on the ground developing everything for so many years.
03:23 But to be able to connect between industry and urbanism, between play and serious experimentation in one building,
03:33 about landscape and playfulness in the interior, which was very important.
03:40 So the idea was through education and knowledge, our minds would be able to sometimes wander and meander in a way to make it possible for future inventions.
03:53 But to be able to create this urban, really, field on the ground and an object above was really a very rare, let's say, ambition from all of us.
04:05 So I have to thank, again, Patrick, who's been our collaborator and partner for many years.
04:11 And we sat for the past 18 years, many late hours at night, doing strange things.
04:19 Even some members of the office were crazy.
04:23 The team, some of them were his students, indulged in this craziness.
04:30 But also, I think, we did not realize about architecture that it's incredibly hard work.
04:36 Is Sarah here?
04:38 [laughter]
04:40 She's obviously doing something odd somewhere.
04:43 That it's very hard work.
04:45 People always ask me, you know, "Is your dream become a reality?"
04:50 And, you know, this idea that I or any of us would kind of go somewhere on the hills and dream,
04:56 architecture is not really like that.
05:00 It requires incredible diligence and pain.
05:03 And no matter how much we smile, we get beaten up all the time in a nice way by our clients.
05:11 We don't always mind.
05:13 But it is very hard work and it's a very complex profession.
05:16 And I think it's an incredible and rare moment that we actually did this project.
05:22 Thank you. Thank you all very much.
05:25 Dostlenica, thank you.
05:27 Dr. Gunnhart, all of you, Joe.
05:31 I really am first too cold and I'm lost for words.
05:36 I'm not known to be lost for words.
05:38 I talk too much sometimes.
05:40 But this is a great, great moment for me and for all my team who have worked extremely hard.
05:46 And I really hope that this building gives you joy
05:51 and also gives us something to the city where the city deserves it,
05:56 which is this connection between such kind of diverse activity in terms of kind of the urban feel
06:03 where the city on one side, the production on the other.
06:07 And hopefully this space will be--
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