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Rem Koolhaas

"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."

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Donna Grant

"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."

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Donna Grant

"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."

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Donna Grant

"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."

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Donna Grant

"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."

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Donna Grant

"SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people."

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Donna Grant

"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."

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Donna Grant

"There should be a place and the space for all pop."

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Donna Grant

"Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue."

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Donna Grant

"The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb."

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Donna Grant

"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."

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Rem Koolhaas
"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."

Influence

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Rem Koolhaas
"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."

Space

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Rem Koolhaas
"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."

Architecture

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Rem Koolhaas
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

Certainty

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Rem Koolhaas
"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."

Weather

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Rem Koolhaas
"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."

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Rem Koolhaas
"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."

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Rem Koolhaas
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."

Reputation

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Rem Koolhaas
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."

Simplicity

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Rem Koolhaas
"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."

Beginning

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