demanded nothing less than no home to society. white male strong but. look meanings of those things today. the seeds of the civil rights. peace movement women's movement for a long playing. teams of steel look. this week.

that there is the a picture of a beautiful city that's quite obvious isn't it the palaces the squares the canals and bridges and the promenade along the leg good but why is new construction really beautiful that's one of the many questions we'll be able to ask the architect to plan and build the world around us and who are coming together here in venice the sixteenth architecture. starting off with the british for billion we find the remains of an experiment robin hood gardens in london was built in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and was intended to be ideal social r.c. but it got consistently bad press and was poorly maintained and eventually demolished the going to be another issues would. remains photos in original section

of the building sand symbols of a social vision nothing. at the other end of the exhibition we find an optimistic look into the future of hong kong brilliant as creative ideas for the city of tomorrow he sees high rises as the only option to gain more free space in hong kong as densely populated territory the architects years as skyscrapers just need a facelift. can we think about greenery sustainability can we plan trees in the tower and a lot more public spaces full the city is at stake share in the tower that need to have a change all regulation technological wise it's definitely possible when power that close you can easily link them up and you provide mall plans and platforms and wait which hong kong and the world to have a new discourse on the design of towers. over one hundred architectural firms took

part in the hong kong project and they were given plenty of leeway in keeping with the title of this year's be another free space and the exhibition is surprisingly open playful and creative if you're looking for breathtaking architecture or trends for the commercial market you could be disappointed the architects designers and urban planners here in venice are more interested in what it's really all about creating buildings for people and for society. the project star apartments offers housing solutions for homeless people in los angeles prefabricated modular units are arranged above an open communal floor practical architecture for an inspiring cause. switzerland's per billion deals with issues of scale in architecture and questions the one size fits all. standards visitors find themselves on

a tour of an empty apartment where the proportions are impossible. now this could be my new flat and the swiss available just something feels not right here. and you see. that i mentions are all this is not made for cooking it's definitely. the installation won the golden lion for best national participation the jury called the installation compelling saying it tackles the critical issues of scale in domestic space. from the heart of europe to the middle east israel is just a few steps away at the piano its subject this year the difficulties of coexistence in a country where three religions lay claim to various holy sites. this model of the church of the holy several current jerusalem uses different colors to show how the

space is divided between six christian denominations. throughout history of the arrangements have been renegotiated repeatedly which has often led to disputes . in this film by nina perry we see the cave of the patriarchs and he brown the scientists shared by jews and muslims. but for ten days a year they each have exclusive access one time it's a synagogue the next a mosque the changeover is overseen by the military. looking at the holy places from an architectural point of view was a whole new experience for the curators of the pavilion. for us what is very interesting that as a secular is we always turn our back to the really just places and suddenly we look at them as architects with the same lens we are used to look at the space see these you know living buildings and and each reveals that's the problems are actually

more or less the same that's maybe extremely exaggerated and that maybe we should be very aware of that our we can have as architects in organizing all these living together. after israel captured arab east jerusalem in one nine hundred sixty seven the western wall suddenly became an undefined area numerous architectural proposals are put forward over the decades the israeli people you know displaced ten of the most interesting ones none have ever been implemented. this years be a knowledge of six answers to many of the big questions of our time immigration climate change and when to lincoln or g. resources. the australian billion has been turned into a grassland landscape the curators say urban expansion in australia has largely been without any regard for nature original grasslands have been replaced by cities

their aim is to challenge that approach and to encourage architects to work with nature. the argentinean prevail you know. so resembles a landscape the country's legendary pumpa. to praise homage to the vast expanse that allows nature human beings in built up areas to co-exist side by side with equal right. to be another always emphasizes the need for sustainability and making use of local resources discolored and bam boom balder can made by vietnamese designers fits perfectly with that concept in fact throughout the exhibition there is a noticeable lack of standard materials such as glass steel and concrete. use filigree wooden ladders set in the middle of an asian fark is actually

a christian chapel commissioned by the vatican it's the work of british architects or norman foster one of the few big names involved in the vienna foster loves the location out in nature this is a deliberate ambiguity to trade big and close but also being aware of all of this for all the beautiful side. foster was one of ten architects commissioned by the vatican to design a chapel here on the venetian island of sun joint german joining. the twenty eight team venice be anon or provides an alternative view of architecture one that focuses on meeting the needs of people one that displays great attention to detail but one that is not set in stone but allows for change and free space. and now we have a date with an architect who decided to live in that would meet up with her in a romantic garden at the other end of the city.

genevieve dean has lived here for many yes she considers venice his second home the architect and professor. it is also a writer in two thousand and six she established the global award for sustainable architecture awarded to architects engaged in the search for new ethics. than i've been in free space firearms as more generally a dream for free space is the theme for the biala this year you could use a top global award for sustainable architecture and award sustainable and participator global award intermittently do you have the feeling that the world of architecture has changed over the past five or ten years in that it's more about building for people of it than for the ego bound to dimension or nick bound his ego has had ceased is it so good business to architecture has rediscovered its

responsibility towards society with great vehemence with great intensity. i think that's now a reversible. so what did he buy as well and it was long overdue. since the eighty's we've been on the wrong path one of endless growth. or slacks it's what the banks and insurance companies and business world have been telling us. yet what you and architects when i hung with that. it was a huge mistake on the part of our profession but a new set of values is now prevailed institutional that we had the other theory you were caught with young architect is you're a professor of architecture what are your students interested in what do they want to build create shape. they want to do much more than just build they want to shape processes that's good that's what we need now it's not about winning competitions

where the biggest most bombastic project we need to transform our societies from within the law know that the younger generation understands that we change society not what last rest buildings but through certain processes architects. need to see themselves not primarily as providers on a commercial supply chain but as drivers of social change to end an evil do is put they said. he takes the architect not a supplier nor is a genius big shot with grand ideas but as what exactly was he ticked as a servant of society that's what we're going to see you said no it was vile to go here is exactly. on the side so it's back to the one nine hundred twenty s. yes the wonderful twenty's or does so that means a commitment to social reform. formosa in the letter of course boundary because there's so architecture for society or for population growth of

a change. is there something you feel particularly passionate about one that is of great urgency was enough. for an exit sign he needs to stop seeing the meaning of life in status symbols and then ever higher levels of performance there's no need for that i still even see society should rather shape life in the physical space for life itself for society itself autonomous lead that's just that one dies or where architecture also has already took place many thanks jano repartee my pleasure stephen called out here of. slots introduce you to a team of architects from berlin who designed the german per billion at the b. in all of this year there unconventional projects have been causing a sensation for some time now they're called graft architects. these three may be

germany's coolest architects blouse click about poets and thomas villa might the name of their practice reflects their interest in crossing boundaries between disciplines and grafting the creative potential of one realm onto another and certainly our category bucket list which bring. their work often boasts organic forms their range is broad from entire city districts to product design and they do retro futurism brilliantly. they've known each other since they were students they opened graft in one thousand nine hundred eight in los angeles from the start they knew they had a different under usual take on things. but the taste is the absence of appetite. in two thousand and seven with actor brad pitt and their make it right foundation they launched a campaign to rebuild a neighborhood in new orleans that had been devastated into the. in five by

hurricane katrina. the idea was for new homes to re envision local architecture and to be sustainable affordable as well as stylish. craft now has offices in berlin and beijing as well and employs one hundred fifty architects and designers trendy hotels and expensive apartment buildings in wealthy cities bring in the money that allows them to pursue their nonprofit projects they feel design is not a first world privilege and that beauty is part of a social sustainability. intervene in society with special measures. there solar kiosk is a compact affordable and sturdy shop unit that is solar powered and designed for remote off grid locations it generates and sells clean energy to charge phones and

enable internet access that helps rural communities overcome their isolation. graft comes up with plenty of interesting ideas for projects in germany as well of course they don't all get built a temporary museum for berlin art cloud. and a kind of novel monument the german unity flag floating in the sky a weightless celebrate tory dance above the country grabbed two is anything but plodding with their feet on the ground the sky's the limit. and there are still plenty of walls to one built. for the german pavilion graphed architects have the spotlight on a very special anniversary as of this year the ballon wallace has been gone for

twenty eight years. that's as long as it stood still vibing the city and germany entered time to take stock from an architectural point of view. a sea of black dark and unwelcoming. only when visitors move around to they realize there are gaps. the initial impression of the german people in unbuilding moves is quite dramatic for me east german civil rights activist money on a battle what with the architects from grokked to explore the free space left behind by the fall of the war between former east and west germany. the death toll that divided the city of berlin alone measured a stunning one hundred and fifty five kilometers. its removal left a vacuum a gaping wound that needed to be healed initially at a very practical level it's got kind of exams but it was no overall strategy or

master plan but there were obvious questions that needed to be answered the links that needed to be reestablished in the view the train lines that needed to be to connect it on the then there was the question of what to do with particularly sensitive areas and more. can't there were some bullet gestures such as the punters ponder so federal revan a string of government buildings designed to link east and west. the free space was gradually filled by many different groups. but it is often some things were decided by the state over there were also citizens initiatives that some areas are doing a long time for ownership issues to be clarified some are still not settled for. the free space gave way to a new party culture many people live to squatters and empty buildings berlin offered virtually unparalleled freedoms in the one nine hundred ninety s. the city became him. precious space and time looking. nations was quickly snapped

up by developers. a building boom followed the former death strip was gradually transformed giving way to offices shopping malls and luxury apartments. only a few traces of the berlin movie remaining twenty eight years ago many were keen to remove all evidence of a decades long division the memorial site had been ours tasa is the last trip of war where visitors can get a sense of the full extent of the border fortifications that wants to adhere. to curators of the german trevelyan film a memorial site in berlin works well. with noir they have dared to make a connection between everyday life which still continues here and remembering what it was like in the past which is not so positive or not at all easy there are relics of the original way and there are interpretations of that war which no longer divide but are permeable that. the former border crossing checkpoint charlie

has become a huge tourist attraction it stands as one of the most symbolic images of the cold war only now plans being drawn up to restructure this historic area in the meantime visitors have to make do with less than authentic memorabilia or try to walk around and get a feel for what it must have been like. another project to venture an interval in and venice is still a building site it's the new headquarters of the spring and media group. that will stand opposite the original building which are going to have built fifty years ago right next to the pattern more quite a political statement at the turn in. the new building designed by a game called house stands directly on the form a death trap. the design traces the course of the berlin wall diagonally through

the bill. leaving the area void and creating a large interior atrium. idea that the it's interesting that this design was the only one submitted in the competition that decided to take the berlin wall as its cue for how to define and shape the interior so it's going to be a building that is actually shaped around the wall of one does i only know of you know whom both. the nerve center of the new spring and campus will be the digital nice room. with your music it'll be like an amphitheater with multiple levels it'll be allowed in full of energetic journalists so here on what was once the death strip view of a place full of life that have been probably the most lively part of berlin building. the german heavily an underling moves celebrates twenty eight years since the fall of the berlin wall by showcasing twenty eight different projects but it's

not only about germany people from six different countries talk on video about their experiences with border walls from mexico to israel. and i know that he and when asked about their hopes and number of those interviewed talked about the fall of the berlin wall what we experienced in germany seems to resonate with many around the world and offer them a ray of hope. but moves can cost a long shot or decades after the fall of the by the move and political reunification differences between east and west germany us to the parent not just in the field of architecture moves are still being unbuilt as the germans have been in and venice makes clear. a young chinese woman architect is setting out to revive the countryside in our homeland using simple yet brilliant means she's got two shows running at the moment here at the be

an ol. and at the same time how work is on show as it is as you tick through forwarding which is where we caught up with that astonishing church and. this is the region of song young which extends along the river song in a bamboo observation platform the pine park really in and a tea house amid plantations. three works by turn modest interventions to restore the health of the region. she wanted to talk to you if you don't feel it's a tea house in everett you have to go through case by case. and also this acupuncture is not a massive surgery into the fray because we want is to be a sustainable strategist. and wants to contribute to the revitalization of

neglected and remote rural areas in china. working with the local authorities and song young jeems to prove that even architectural micro interventions that address the specific situation of a particular place can bring about positive change not just more tourists the brown sugar factory operates as such between october and december year round it's also a community and arts center. the bricks dealin sheet metal are complemented by lots of glass transparency is enhanced the production process that sustains the village economy and the social life for the villagers enters into a new engaging relationship with the us architecture as our language to address social issues to restore their identity we work with the british heritage history. and we set up this puppet program for the community.

one village council commissioned a new village center dedicated to its most famous son the fourteenth century scholar wang jing. designed wong jing memorial hall it's major of round earth a traditional construction technique here local artisans and artists worked on the project it's had a huge impact reviving the religious sense of pride and it is counting to face the old breath and they left the space they left the strays and later on the engaged the vin it started to run no wait more p.o.d.'s in of it it's still going continuing now and i think maybe the end of this sea of new ones village. the plantations are shaped the landscape and the economy of song young for centuries. this is huge and shuns museum devoted to the history and culture of dr

ethnic group. true local tribes people abuse traditional techniques to build it. she believes that if people can find work in their own home region and the skills are required and respected they're less likely to move to the city under strategy has proven successful. curator simple elegant wooden roof to an old bridge across the summit creating a social space that brings together villagers from the two banks of the river for humans it was closed off today it's a symbol of renewed. around the well aka tax created bill the world will live in let us hope that in the future it will more often be those who to paraphrase the great architect rather go up us see themselves as sevens of society and less often those who am only to be servants of their investigation.

her. lifestyle. transformed by calls from the constant chum the country features. her. prey seems very to the former student germany international competition bring spotting condoms on instagram and i mean some. trouble. for me to.

just listen this is the sound of time passing as forests the size of twenty five football fields a lost every minute adding to greenhouse gases but what is the sound of a tree not for cars the sound of biodiversity tourism community development reliable food and water. the united nations development program is listening and working with communities to protect forests for the future we want if you're hearing what we're hearing find out mole play. a big fund be told. his work that god is for turning out. the maestro and famous. bonnie twenty.

five her first day. school in the jungle. first listen. then doris granger moment arrives. join during attained on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary . to bring you tame returns home on d w dot com among its things. these creations. this brand mystical callard office. of the. book what do we really know about the man behind the dark. what motivates him how does he think feel good moments in the life of a great fashion designer. someone special. starts september ninth double.

play a lead. player. says he got the news live from berlin international outrage as many of them are sentences to reuters journalists to seven years in jail. as you reported for investigating manned mars crackdown on the work in your minority they say they were framed by police western governments condemn the verdict in the u.k. calling it a hammer blow to the rule of law. also could.