Worthy of our great republic. We do so by advocating for the classic condition in civic design. We believe that tradition is unparalleled and its dignity, beauty and harmony, not to mention its legibility to the common man. It is no accident that the Founding Fathers chose the classical style when designing the Nations Capital and its and its core buildings of government. The founders sought to harken back to republic rome and democratic athens and knew that classical architecture was time honored and timeless. The National Civic arts Society Works to continue and expand upon the founders vision for the Nations Capital in federal design generally. I perhaps dont need to tell you that since the 19 fifties, washington d. C. Has been marred and disfigured by federal buildings and memorials that do not comport with the citys classical heritage and identity. For instance, there is the hirsch horn museum, which looks like a bunker. Then theres the bird list fbi building which i called the mi
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Be, you know, if they become like a new or new species, Artificial Intelligence creates things weve never seen or heard before like the stuff malas unfinished 10th symphony now completed in its entirety. I am the deep Neural Network news net has managed to complete with the composer couldnt, ai is invading our lives and the arts. Just how much is the subject of iraq once Research Page rector of the Max Planck Institute force, Human Development in berlin. He talks with us about a, i am and how to deal with Intelligent Machines in your head of the research center, humans and machines. Why do you think its important to study the behavior of machines . Because machines are in, you act or in our world . You know, this is the 1st time that weve created a tool that can make decisions on its own. Its going to be driving cars. Its going to be making decisions about who gets hired and following her. That is going to help us create art and so on. So what would you say are the possible scenarios w
Measures on its own to stem the spread meantime the president elect forming his inner circle as President Trumps legal team hitting another brick wall and besting the bitcoin . You betcha the crypto asset outperforming them all its our rbi on this monday, november 23rd, this is worldwide exchange. Well, good monday morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching im Brian Sullivan good to have you on the program this morning its becoming a trend lately now, mondays, vaccine mondays now tending to show positive data in the fight against covid. And today is no exception. Look at that stock futures they are up, dow futures up 208 nasdaq futures up 50 the markets are getting a boost this morning on news from astrazeneca and Oxford University that broke just hours ago. The university saying its covid19 vaccine was found to be as much as 90 effective in preventing infections without serious side effects in a large Clinical Trial in the u
Around europe. Lets take a closer look at 2 more examples. But in the finnish capital, helsinki is the nations 1st in the 0 waste restaurant. And the southern german city of crowd work leads the way in the fight against global warming. But 1st people who live in cities long for connection to nature and the concept of a bio field like architecture tries to satisfy this desire includes building with natural materials, bringing light into peoples homes as much as possible and connecting a buildings occupants with their natural surroundings. While the freebooter apartment complex in amsterdam was built, according to this principle, we went there to check it out and ask its residents if it improves their daily lives. Lloyd instead of concrete curves rather than hard edges, a style of architecture that loves life. The result is building according to the principles of buy a philip architecture jacket. More garcia now is the architect of the freebooter or booklet me here in the deck, city of a