ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Thomas Heatherwick - Designer
Thomas Heatherwick is the founder of Heatherwick Studio, an architecture and design firm that, among other projects, designed the astonishing "Seed Cathedral" for the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010.

Why you should listen

Thomas Heatherwick founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 with his aim being "to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice." On the team, architects, landscape architects, designers and engineers work from a combined studio and workshop, where concept development, detailing, prototyping and small-scale fabrication take place. The studio's work spans commercial and residential building projects, masterplanning and infrastructure schemes as well as high profile works of public art.

From his biography at the Design Museum:

Heatherwick finds pleasure in what other designers might perceive as unconventional commissions, like the entrance and carpark for Guys Hospital, near London Bridge. He responded with an organic woven façade, created from stainless steel braid that requires little maintenance and creates a new system for routing traffic. In this context, what Heatherwick cites as his dream design job is unsurprising: a large-scale car park for the 1970s new town, Milton Keynes. “It’s is a weird place but I find it exciting because its infrastructure is taken so seriously,” Heatherwick explains, “It needs multistory car parks. But what world-class example of a well designed car park can you think of? There’s not much competition and they’re a very cheap building typology so you could build the best car park in the world for a fraction of the cost of the fanciest new art gallery… I’d like to work on the world’s best car park.”

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Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral

Thomas Heatherwick: Gradnja katedrale sjemenki

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Još ljepša budućnost? Arhitekt Thomas Heatherwick pokazuje pet novih projekata koji nose u sebi ingeniozan dizajn inspiriran biologijom. Neki su prerade običnog: autobus, most, stanica električne energije... A jedan je nevjerojatan paviljon, Katedrala sjemenki, slavlje rasta i svjetla.
- Designer
Thomas Heatherwick is the founder of Heatherwick Studio, an architecture and design firm that, among other projects, designed the astonishing "Seed Cathedral" for the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010. Full bio

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HelloPozdrav, my nameime is ThomasThomas HeatherwickHeatherwick.
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Dobar dan, moje ime je Thomas Heatherwick.
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I have a studiostudio in LondonLondon
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Imam studio u Londonu
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that has a particularposebno approachpristup
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koji ima poseban pristup
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to designingprojektiranje buildingsgrađevine.
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dizajniranju zgrada.
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When I was growingrastući up,
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Tijekom mog odrastanja,
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I was exposedizložen to makingizrađivanje
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bio sam izložen izrađivanju
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and craftsobrt and materialsmaterijali
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i zanatu i materijalima
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and inventionizum on a smallmali scaleljestvica.
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i izumima na maloj razini.
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And I was there looking
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I odonda sam promatrao
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at the largerveći scaleljestvica of buildingsgrađevine
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zgrade na višoj razini
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and findingnalaz
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i pronalazio
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that the buildingsgrađevine that were around me
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kako se zgrade koje su bile oko mene
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and that were beingbiće designedkonstruiran
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i koje su dizajnirane
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and that were there in the publicationspublikacije I was seeingvidim
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i koje su bile u publikacijama koje sam pratio
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feltosjećala soullessbez duše and coldhladno.
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doimaju bez duše i hladne.
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And there on the smallermanji scaleljestvica,
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A na manjoj razini,
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the scaleljestvica of an earringnaušnica
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razini naušnice
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or a ceramickeramika potlonac
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ili keramičkog lonca
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or a musicalmjuzikl instrumentinstrument,
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ili glazbenog instrumenta,
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was a materialityznačajnosti and a soulfulnesssoulfulness.
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to je bila materijalnost i duševnost.
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And this influencedpod utjecajem me.
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I to je utjecalo na mene.
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The first buildingzgrada I builtizgrađen was 20 yearsgodina agoprije.
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Prvu zgradu sam izgradio prije 20 godina.
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And sinceod, in the last 20 yearsgodina,
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I otada, u posljednjih 20 godina,
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I've developedrazvijen a studiostudio in LondonLondon.
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razvio sam studio u Londonu.
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Sorry, this was my mothermajka, by the way,
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Oprostite, ovo je bila moja majka, usput,
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in her beadPerla shopdućan in LondonLondon.
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u svojoj trgovini perlama u Londonu.
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I spentpotrošen a lot of time countingračunajući beadskuglice and things like that.
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Proveo sam mnogo vremena brojeći perle i stvari poput toga.
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I'm just going to showpokazati, for people who don't know my studio'sstudija work,
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Pokazat ću, za ljude koji nisu upoznati s radom mog studija,
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a fewnekoliko projectsprojekti that we'veimamo workedradio on.
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nekoliko projekata na kojima smo radili.
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This is a hospitalbolnica buildingzgrada.
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Ovo je zgrada bolnice.
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This is a shopdućan for a bagtorba companydruštvo.
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Ovo je trgovina za kompaniju torbi.
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This is studiosstudija for artistsizvođači.
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Ovo je studio za umjetnike.
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This is a sculptureskulptura
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Ovo je skulptura
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madenapravljen from a millionmilijuna yardsdvorišta of wirežica
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napravljena od 914,4 kilometra žice
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and 150,000 glassstaklo beadskuglice
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i 150.000 staklenih perli
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the sizeveličina of a golfgolf balllopta.
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veličine loptice za golf.
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And this is a windowprozor displayprikaz.
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A ovo je prikaz na prozoru.
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And this is pairpar of coolinghlađenje towerskule
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A ovo je par tornjeva za hlađenje
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for an electricityelektricitet substationtrafostanica
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za električnu trafostanicu
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nextSljedeći to StSt. Paul'sPavlova CathedralKatedrala in LondonLondon.
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pokraj katedrale Svetog Pavla u Londonu.
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And this is a templehram in JapanJapan
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A ovo je hram u Japanu
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for a BuddhistBudistički monkredovnik.
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za budističke svećenike.
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And this is a cafekafić by the seamore
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A ovo je kafić uz more
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in BritainBritanija.
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u Britaniji.
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And just very quicklybrzo,
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I samo vrlo kratko,
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something we'veimamo been workingrad on very recentlynedavno
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nešto na čemu smo radili nedavno
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is we were commissionedNaručio by the mayorgradonačelnik of LondonLondon
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i za što smo dobili narudžbu od gradonačelnika Londona
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to designdizajn a newnovi busautobus
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je dizajn novog autobusa
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that gavedali the passengerputnika
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koji bi vratio putnicima
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theirnjihov freedomsloboda again.
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ponovno njihovu slobodu.
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Because the originalizvornik RoutemasterIkonskog busautobus
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Jer izvorni Routemaster autobus
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that some of you maysvibanj be familiarupoznat with,
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s kojim su neki od vas upoznati,
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whichkoji had this openotvoren platformplatforma at the back --
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koji je u stražnjem dijelu imao otvorenu platformu --
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in factčinjenica, I think all our RoutemastersRoutemasters
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zapravo, mislim kako su svi naši Routemasteri
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are here in CaliforniaCalifornia now actuallyzapravo.
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upravo ovdje u Kaliforniji.
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But they aren'tnisu in LondonLondon.
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Ali nisu u Londonu.
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And so you're stucku škripcu on a busautobus.
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I tako ste vi zaglavili na autobusu.
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And if the busautobus is going to stop
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I ukoliko autobus stane
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and it's threetri yardsdvorišta away from the busautobus stop,
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i to tri metra dalje od autobusne postaje,
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you're just a prisonerzatvorenik.
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vi ste samo ztvorenik.
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But the mayorgradonačelnik of LondonLondon wanted to reintroduceponovno predstavljanje
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Ali gradonačelnik Londona je želio ponovno predstaviti
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busesautobusi with this openotvoren platformplatforma.
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autobuse s tim otvorenim platformama.
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So we'veimamo been workingrad with TransportPrijevoz for LondonLondon,
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Dakle, mi smo radili s Transportom za London,
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and that organizationorganizacija
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a ta organizacija
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hasn'tnema actuallyzapravo been responsibleodgovoran
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nije bila odgovorna
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as a clientklijent for a newnovi busautobus
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kao klijent za novi autobus
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for 50 yearsgodina.
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proteklih 50 godina.
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And so we'veimamo been very luckysretan to have a chanceprilika to work.
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I tako smo mi imali puno sreće dobiti priliku to raditi.
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The briefkratak is that the busautobus should use 40 percentposto lessmanje energyenergija.
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Informacija je bila kako bi autobus trebao koristiti 40 posto manje energije.
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So it's got hybridhibrid drivepogon.
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Dakle, ima hibridni pogon.
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And we'veimamo been workingrad
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I radili smo
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to try to improvepoboljšati
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kako bismo pokušali poboljšati
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everything from the fabrictkanina
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sve od tkanine
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to the formatformat
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do formata
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and structurestruktura
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i strukture
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and aestheticsestetika.
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i estetike.
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I was going to showpokazati fourčetiri mainglavni projectsprojekti.
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Htio sam pokazati četiri glavna projekta.
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And this is a projectprojekt for a bridgemost.
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A ovo je projekt za most.
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And so we were commissionedNaručio to designdizajn a bridgemost that would openotvoren.
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I tako smo dobili narudžbu da dizajniramo most koji bi se otvarao.
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And openingsotvora seemedčinilo se --
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A otvorenja su se činila --
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everyonesvatko lovesvoli openingotvor bridgesmostovi,
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svi vole mostove koji se otvaraju,
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but it's quitedosta a basicosnovni thing.
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ali to je zapravo osnovna stvar.
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I think we all kindljubazan of standstajati and watch.
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Mislim kako svi mi stojimo i gledamo.
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But the bridgesmostovi that we saw
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Ali mostovi koje smo mi vidjeli
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that openedotvori and closedzatvoreno --
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a koji su se otvarali i zatvarali --
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I'm slightlymalo squeamishgadljiv --
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malo sam gadljiv --
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but I oncejednom saw a photographfotografirati of a footballernogometaš
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ali jednom sam vidio fotografiju nogometaša
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who was divingronjenje for a balllopta.
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koji je zaronio za loptom.
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And as he was divingronjenje, someonenetko had stampedovjerene on his kneekoljeno,
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I kako je zaranjao, netko mu je nagazio na koljeno,
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and it had brokenslomljen like this.
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i slomilo se nekako ovako.
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And then we lookedgledao at these kindsvrste of bridgesmostovi
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I zatim smo promatrali sve te vrste mostova
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and just couldn'tne mogu help feelingosjećaj
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i nismo si mogli pomoći a da ne osjećamo
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that it was a beautifullijep thing that had brokenslomljen.
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kako je lijepa stvar to što se slomilo.
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And so this is in PaddingtonPaddington in LondonLondon.
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I ovo je u Paddingtonu u Londonu.
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And it's a very boringdosadan bridgemost, as you can see.
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I to je vrlo dosadan most, kao što možete vidjeti.
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It's just steelželjezo and timbergreda.
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To je samo čelik i drvo.
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But insteadumjesto of what it is,
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Ali umjesto toga što je,
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our focusfokus was on the way it workedradio.
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naš fokus je bio na tome kako je funkcionirao.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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So we likedvolio the ideaideja that the two farthestnajdalje bitskomadići of it
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Stoga nam se sviđala ideja kako bi njegova dva najudaljenija kraja
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would endkraj up kissingljubakanje eachsvaki other.
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završila skupa i spojila se poljupcem.
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We actuallyzapravo had to halveprepoloviti its speedubrzati,
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Morali smo zapravo prepoloviti njegovu brzinu,
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because everyonesvatko was too scaredprestrašen when we first did it.
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jer su se svi previše bojali kada smo to prvi puta učinili.
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So that's it speededbrzinu up.
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Dakle, ovo je ubrzano.
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A projectprojekt that we'veimamo been workingrad on very recentlynedavno
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Projekt na kojem radimo odnedavno
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is to designdizajn a newnovi biomassbiomasa powervlast stationstanica --
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je dizajn nove energetske stanice za biomasu --
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so a powervlast stationstanica that usesnamjene organicorganski wastegubljenje materialmaterijal.
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dakle energetska stanica koja koristi organski otpadni materijal.
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In the newsvijesti,
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U vijestima,
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the subjectpredmet of where our futurebudućnost watervoda is going to come from
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predmet otkuda bi naša buduća voda mogla dolaziti
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and where our powervlast is going to come from
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i otkuda će naša energija dolaziti
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is in all the papersnovine all the time.
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je u svim novinama cijelo vrijeme.
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And we used to be quitedosta proudponos of the way we generatedgeneriran powervlast.
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I bili smo prilično ponosni na način na koji smo dobivali energiju.
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But recentlynedavno,
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Ali u zadnje vrijeme,
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any annualgodišnji reportizvješće of a powervlast companydruštvo
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bilo koje godišnje izvješće neke energetske kompanije
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doesn't have a powervlast stationstanica on it.
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nema energetsku stanicu u sebi.
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It has a childdijete runningtrčanje throughkroz a fieldpolje, or something like that.
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Ima dijete koje trči kroz polje, ili nešto nalik tome.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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And so when a consortiumKonzorcij of engineersinženjeri approachedprilazi us
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I stoga kada nam je konzorcij inžinjera pristupio
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and askedpitao us to work with them on this powervlast stationstanica,
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i zamolio nas da radimo s njima na toj energetskoj stanici,
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our conditionstanje was that we would work with them
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naš uvjet je bio kako ćemo raditi s njima
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and that, whateveršto god we did,
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i kako, štogod da učinili,
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we were not just going to decorateUkrasite a normalnormalan powervlast stationstanica.
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nećemo samo ukrasiti normalnu energetsku stanicu.
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And insteadumjesto, we had to learnnaučiti -- we kindljubazan of forcedprisiljeni them to teachučiti us.
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I umjesto toga, morali smo učiti -- morali smo ih na neki način prisiliti da nas nauče.
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And so we spentpotrošen time travelingputujući with them
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I tako smo proveli vrijeme putujući s njima
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and learningučenje about all the differentdrugačiji elementselementi,
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i učeći o svim tim različitim elementima,
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and findingnalaz that there were plentymnogo of inefficienciesneučinkovitosti
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i otkrivajući kako je postojalo mnogo neučinkovitosti
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that weren'tnisu beingbiće capitalizedvelikim slovom on.
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koje nisu bile kapitalizirane.
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That just takinguzimanje a fieldpolje and banginglupnjava all these things out
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Kako uzimanje polja i izbacivanje svih tih stvari van
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isn't necessarilyobavezno the mostnajviše efficientučinkovit way that they could work.
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nije nužno najučinkovitiji način na koji bi one mogle raditi.
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So we lookedgledao at how we could composesastaviti all those elementselementi --
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Stoga smo gledali kako bismo mogli posložiti sve te elemente --
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insteadumjesto of just litterleglo, createstvoriti one compositionsastav.
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umjesto samog smeća, mogli bismo stvoriti jedan sastav.
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And what we foundpronađeno --
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A ono što smo otkrili --
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this areapodručje is one of the poorestnajsiromašnija partsdijelovi of BritainBritanija.
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ovo područje je jedno od najsiromašnijih u Britaniji.
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It was votedglasao the worstnajgori placemjesto in BritainBritanija to liveživjeti.
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Bilo je izglasano kao najgore mjesto za živjeti u Britaniji.
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And there are 2,000 newnovi homeskuća beingbiće builtizgrađen
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A 2.000 novih domova se gradi
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nextSljedeći to this powervlast stationstanica.
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odmah pokraj te elektrane.
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So it feltosjećala this has a socialsocijalni dimensiondimenzija.
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Stoga se činilo kako ovo ima društvenu dimenziju.
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It has a symbolicsimbolički importancevažnost.
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Ima simboličku važnost.
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And we should be proudponos of where our powervlast is comingdolazak from,
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A trebali bismo biti ponosni na to otkuda naša energija dolazi,
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ratherradije than something we are necessarilyobavezno ashamedposramljen of.
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a ne se sramiti toga.
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So we were looking at how we could make a powervlast stationstanica,
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Stoga smo promatrali kako bismo mogli izgraditi elektranu,
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that, insteadumjesto of keepingčuvanje people out
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koja, umjesto da drži ljude podalje
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and havingima a bigvelika fenceograda around the outsideizvan,
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i ima veliku ogradu izvana,
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could be a placemjesto that pullsvučenje you in.
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može biti mjesto koje vas vuče unutra.
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And it has to be --
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I mora biti --
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I'm tryingtežak to get my --
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pokušavam preračunati --
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250 feetnoge highvisok.
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60 metara visoka.
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So it feltosjećala that what we could try to do
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Dakle, učinilo mi se kako bismo mogli pokušati
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is make a powervlast parkpark
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stvoriti energetski park
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and actuallyzapravo bringdonijeti the wholečitav areapodručje in,
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i zapravo unijeti cijelo područje unutra,
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and usingkoristeći the sparerezervni soiltlo that's there on the sitemjesto,
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i koristeći suvišnu zemlju koja nam na gradilištu ostane,
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we could make a powervlast stationstanica that was silentnijem as well.
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mogli bismo izgraditi elektranu koja je jednako tiha.
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Because just that soiltlo
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Jer upravo ta zemlja
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could make the acousticakustički differencerazlika.
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bi mogla učiniti akustičnu razliku.
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And we alsotakođer foundpronađeno that we could make a more efficientučinkovit structurestruktura
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I ujedno smo otkrili kako bismo mogli strukturu učiniti učinkovitijom
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and have a cost-effectiveisplativ way
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i imati viši troškovni učinak
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of makingizrađivanje a structurestruktura to do this.
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ukoliko bi zgrada mogla to raditi.
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The finishedgotov projectprojekt
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Finalni proizvod
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is meantznačilo to be more than just a powervlast stationstanica.
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je zamišljen da bude više od same elektrane.
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It has a spaceprostor where you could have a barbar mitzvahmicva at the topvrh.
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Ima prostor gdje možete imati bar mitzvah na vrhu.
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(Smijeh)
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And it's a powervlast parkpark.
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A to je i energetski park.
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So people can come and really experienceiskustvo this
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Dakle, ljudi mogu doći i uistinu iskusiti ovo
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and alsotakođer look out all around the areapodručje,
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i isto tako promatrati cijelo područje,
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and use that heightvisina that we have to have for its functionfunkcija.
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i koristiti tu visinu koju imamo za njegovu funkciju.
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In ShanghaiShanghai,
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U Šangaju,
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we were invitedpozvan to buildizgraditi --
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pozvani smo da izgradimo --
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well we weren'tnisu invitedpozvan; what am I talkingkoji govori about.
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pa, nismo bili pozvani; o čemu ja pričam.
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We wonwon the competitionkonkurencija, and it was painfulbolan to get there.
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Osvojili smo natječaj, i bilo je bolno doći tamo.
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So we wonwon the competitionkonkurencija to buildizgraditi the U.K. pavilionPaviljon.
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Dobili smo natječaj da izgradimo paviljon Ujedinjenog Kraljevstva.
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And an expoexpo
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A Expo
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is a totallypotpuno bonkerslud thing.
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je potpuno luda stvar.
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There's 250 pavilionspaviljona.
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Tamo ima 250 paviljona.
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It's the world'ssvijetu biggestnajveći ever expoexpo that had ever happeneddogodilo.
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To je najveći Expo koji se ikad dogodio na svijetu.
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So there are up to a millionmilijuna people there everydaysvaki dan.
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Dakle, tamo dođe do milijun ljudi svaki dan.
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And 250 countrieszemlje all competingnatječu.
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I 250 zemalja se sve natječu.
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And the BritishBritanski governmentvlada sayingizreka,
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A Britanska vlada kaže,
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"You need to be in the topvrh fivepet."
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"Morate biti u prvih pet."
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And so that becamepostao
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I tako je to postao
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the governmentalvladin goalcilj --
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vladin cilj --
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is, how do you standstajati out in this chaoshaos,
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a to je, kako ćete se uzdići u tom kaosu,
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whichkoji is an expoexpo of stimuluspoticaj?
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koji predstavlja Expo podražaja?
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So our senseosjećaj was we had to do one thing,
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Dakle, naš smisao je kako smo morali učiniti jednu stvar,
08:34
and only one thing,
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i samo jednu stvar,
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insteadumjesto of tryingtežak to have everything.
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umjesto da pokušamo imati sve.
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And so what we alsotakođer feltosjećala
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I ono što smo isto osjećali
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was that whateveršto god we did we couldn'tne mogu do a cheesysirast advertskrenuti pažnju for BritainBritanija.
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jest kako, štogod da napravimo, ne možemo imati otrcan oglas za Britaniju.
08:44
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
08:46
But the thing that was truepravi,
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Ali ono što je bila istina,
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the expoexpo was about the futurebudućnost of citiesgradovi,
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na expu se radilo o budućnosti gradova,
08:50
and particularlynaročito the VictoriansViktorije
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i naročito su Viktorijci
08:52
pioneeredpionir integratingintegriranje naturepriroda into the citiesgradovi.
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bili pioniri u integraciji prirode u gradove.
08:55
And the world'ssvijetu first publicjavnost parkpark of modernmoderan timesputa
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A prvi javni park na svijetu modernih vremena
08:57
was in BritainBritanija.
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je bio u Britaniji.
08:59
And the world'ssvijetu first majorglavni botanicalBotanički institutioninstitucija
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A prva veća botanička institucija u svijetu
09:02
is in LondonLondon,
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je u Londonu.
09:04
and they have this extraordinaryizvanredan projectprojekt
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I imaju taj jedinstveni projekt
09:06
where they'vešto ga do been collectingprikupljanje 25 percentposto
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gdje sakupljaju 25 posto
09:08
of all the world'ssvijetu plantbiljka speciesvrsta.
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svih svjetskih biljnih vrsta.
09:10
So we suddenlyiznenada realizedshvatio that there was this thing.
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Stoga smo odjednom shvatili kako to postoji.
09:13
And everyonesvatko agreesslaže that treesstabla are beautifullijep,
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I svi se slažu kako su drveća lijepa.
09:16
and I've never metsastali anyonebilo tko who sayskaže, "I don't like treesstabla."
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I nikada nisam sreo nekoga tko je rekao, "Ne volim drveća."
09:18
And the sameisti with flowerscvijeće.
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A isto je i s cvijećem.
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I've never metsastali anyonebilo tko who sayskaže, "I don't like flowerscvijeće."
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Nikada nisam sreo nekoga tko je rekao, "Ne volim cvijeće."
09:23
But we realizedshvatio that seedssjemenke --
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Ali shvatili smo kako sjemenke --
09:25
there's been this very seriousozbiljan projectprojekt happeningdogađa --
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događao se taj vrlo ozbiljan projekt --
09:27
but that seedssjemenke --
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kako sjemenke --
09:29
at these majorglavni botanicalBotanički gardensvrtovi,
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u tim velikim botaničkim vrtovima
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seedssjemenke aren'tnisu on showpokazati.
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sjemenke se ne prikazuju.
09:33
But you just have to go to a gardenvrt centercentar,
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Već samo morate otići u vrtni centar,
09:35
and they're in little paperpapir packetspaketi.
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i one se nalaze u malim papirnatim paketićima.
09:37
But this phenomenalfenomenalan project'sprojekta been happeningdogađa.
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Ali taj fenomenalan projekt se odvijao.
09:40
So we realizedshvatio we had to make a projectprojekt
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Stoga smo shvatili kako moramo osmisliti projekt
09:42
that would be seedssjemenke, some kindljubazan of seedsjeme cathedralKatedrala.
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koje će biti sjemenke, neka vrste katedrale sjemenki.
09:45
But how could we showpokazati these teeny-weenymalene things?
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Ali kako bismo mogli prikazati te sićušne stvarčice?
09:48
And the filmfilm "JurassicJure ParkPark" actuallyzapravo really helpedpomogao us.
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I film "Jurski park" nam je zapravo pomogao.
09:51
Because the DNADNK of the dinosaurdinosaur that was trappedzarobljena in the amberAmber
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Jer DNK dinosaura koja je bila zatočena u jantaru
09:54
gavedali us some kindljubazan of cluetrag
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dala nam je neku vrstu indikacije
09:57
that these tinysićušan things
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kako bi te male stvarčice
09:59
could be trappedzarobljena and be madenapravljen to seemčiniti se preciousdragocjen,
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mogle biti zatočene i odati dojam kako su dragocjene,
10:01
ratherradije than looking like nutsorašasto voće.
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a ne samo da izgledaju poput oraha.
10:04
So the challengeizazov was,
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Dakle, izazov je bio,
10:06
how are we going to bringdonijeti lightsvjetlo and exposeizložiti these things?
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kako ćemo dovesti svijetlo i izložiti te stvari?
10:09
We didn't want to make a separateodvojen buildingzgrada and have separateodvojen contentsadržaj.
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Nismo željeli izgraditi odvojenu zgradu i imati odvojen sadržaj.
10:12
So we were tryingtežak to think,
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Stoga smo pokušali razmišljati,
10:14
how could we make a wholečitav thing emanatezrače.
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kako bismo mogli učiniti cijelu tu stvar kao da se širi.
10:17
By the way, we had halfpola the budgetbudžet of the other WesternZapadni nationsnacije.
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Usput rečeno, mi smo imali pola budžeta u odnosu na druge zapadne zemlje.
10:19
So that was alsotakođer in the mixmiješati
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Dakle, to je bio također dio mješavine
10:22
with the sitemjesto the sizeveličina of a footballnogomet pitchnagib.
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sa zemljištem veličine nogometnog igrališta.
10:24
And so there was one particularposebno toyigračka that gavedali us a cluetrag.
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I tako je tamo bila jedna posebna igračka koja nam je dala trag.
10:27
(VideoVideo) VoiceGlas Over: The newnovi Play-DohRezanje MopKrpu TopVrh HairKosa ShopTrgovina.
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(Video) Glas: Novi Play-Doh Mop Top Salon kose.
10:30
SongPjesma: ♫ We'veMoramo got the MopKrpu TopsVrhovima, the Play-DohRezanje MopKrpu TopsVrhovima
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Pjesma: ♫ Imamo Mop Tops, Play-Doh Mop Tops ♫
10:33
♫ Just turnskretanje the chairstolica and growrasti Play-DohRezanje hairdlaka
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♫ Samo okreni stolicu i uzgoji Play-Doh kosu ♫
10:35
♫ They're the MopKrpu TopsVrhovima
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♫ One su Mop Tops ♫
10:37
ThomasThomas HeatherwickHeatherwick: Okay, you get the ideaideja.
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Thomas Heatherwick: U redu, shvatili ste bit.
10:39
So the ideaideja
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Dakle ideja
10:41
was to take these 66,000 seedssjemenke
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je bila uzeti tih 66.000 sjemenki
10:43
that they agreeddogovoren to give us,
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koje su oni odlučili nam dati,
10:45
and to take eachsvaki seedsjeme and trapzamka it
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i uzeti svaku sjemenku i zatočiti je
10:47
in this preciousdragocjen opticaloptički hairdlaka
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u tu dragocjenu optičku vlas
10:50
and growrasti that throughkroz this boxkutija,
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i uzgojito to kroz ovu kutiju,
10:53
very simplejednostavan boxkutija elementelement,
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vrlo jednostavan element kutije,
10:55
and make it a buildingzgrada
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i učiniti je zgradom
10:58
that could movepotez in the windvjetar.
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koja bi se mogla pomicati na vjetru.
11:00
So the wholečitav thing can gentlynježno movepotez when the windvjetar blowsudarci.
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Dakle, cijela stvar se može lagano njihati kada vjetar puše.
11:03
And insideiznutra, the daylightljetno --
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A unutra, dnevna svjetlost --
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eachsvaki one is an opticoptički
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svaka od njih je optička
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and it bringsdonosi lightsvjetlo into the centercentar.
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i usmjerava svjetlost prema sredini.
11:09
And by night,
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A tijekom noći,
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artificialUmjetna lightsvjetlo in eachsvaki one
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umjetno svjetlo u svakoj od njih
11:13
emanatesizvire and comesdolazi out to the outsideizvan.
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prolazi kroz njih i izlazi s vanjske strane.
11:15
And to make the projectprojekt affordabledostupan,
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A kako bismo učinili ovaj projekt isplativim,
11:18
we focusedusmjerena our energyenergija.
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usmjerili smo našu energiju.
11:20
InsteadUmjesto toga of buildingzgrada a buildingzgrada as bigvelika as the footballnogomet pitchnagib,
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Umjesto gradnje zgrade velike poput nogometnog igrališta,
11:22
we focusedusmjerena it on this one elementelement.
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usmjerili smo je na taj jedan element.
11:25
And the governmentvlada agreeddogovoren to do that
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I vlada se složila to učiniti
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and not do anything elsedrugo,
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i ne učiniti ništa više,
11:30
and focusfokus our energyenergija on that.
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i usmjeriti našu energiju na to.
11:32
And so the restodmor of the sitemjesto was a publicjavnost spaceprostor.
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I stoga je ostatak zemljišta bio javni prostor.
11:35
And with a millionmilijuna people there a day,
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A s milijun ljudi dnevno koji tamo prolaze,
11:37
it just feltosjećala like offeringponuda some publicjavnost spaceprostor.
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bilo je prikladno ponuditi javni prostor.
11:40
We workedradio with an AstroTurfAstroTurf manufacturerproizvođač
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Radili smo s proizvođačem Astro Turfa
11:43
to developrazviti a mini-memini-me versionverzija
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na razvijanju minijaturne verzije
11:45
of the seedsjeme cathedralKatedrala,
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katedrale sjemenki,
11:47
so that, even if you're partially-sightedslabovidnih,
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tako da, čak i ako ste slabovidni,
11:49
that it was kindljubazan of crunchyhrskav and softmekan,
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to je bilo pomalo hrskavo i mekano,
11:52
that piecekomad of landscapepejzaž that you see there.
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ovaj komad krajolika koji vidite ovdje.
11:55
And then, you know when a petljubimac has an operationoperacija
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I zatim, znate kada kućni ljubimac ide na operaciju,
11:59
and they shavebrijanje a bitbit of the skinkoža
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i oni obriju dio kože
12:01
and get ridosloboditi of the furkrzno --
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i riješe se krzna --
12:03
in ordernarudžba to get you to go into the seedsjeme cathedralKatedrala,
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kako bi vas doveli u katedralu sjemenki,
12:06
in effectposljedica, we'veimamo shavedobrijana it.
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mi smo je obrijali.
12:08
And insideiznutra there's nothing;
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A unutra nema ničega;
12:10
there's no famouspoznat actor'sglumac je voiceglas;
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nema glasa poznatog glumca;
12:12
there's no projectionsprojekcije;
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nema projekcija;
12:14
there's no televisionstelevizori; there's no colorboja changingmijenjanje.
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nema televizije; nema mijenjanja boja;
12:16
There's just silencetišina
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postoji samo tišina
12:18
and a coolsvjež temperaturetemperatura.
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i ugodna temperatura.
12:21
And if a cloudoblak goeside pastprošlost,
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A ako oblak prolazi,
12:23
you can see a cloudoblak on the tipsSavjeti
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možete vidjeti oblak na vrhovima
12:25
where it's lettingiznajmljivanje the lightsvjetlo throughkroz.
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kroz koji dolazi svjetlost.
12:31
This is the only projectprojekt that we'veimamo doneučinio
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Ovo je jedini projekt koji smo napravili
12:33
where the finishedgotov thing
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gdje finalni proizvod
12:35
lookedgledao more like a renderingvraćanje than our renderingsvizualizacije.
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izgleda više kao nacrt nego naši nacrti.
12:38
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
12:44
A keyključ thing was how people would interactinterakcija.
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Ključna stvar je bila kako će ljudi vršiti interakciju.
12:47
I mean, in a way it was the mostnajviše seriousozbiljan thing
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Mislim, u jednu ruku bila je to najozbiljnija stvar
12:49
you could possiblemoguće do at the expoexpo.
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koju ste mogli učiniti na Expu.
12:51
And I just wanted to showpokazati you.
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I samo sam vam htio pokazati.
12:53
The BritishBritanski governmentvlada --
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Britanska vlada --
12:55
any governmentvlada is potentiallypotencijalno the worstnajgori clientklijent in the worldsvijet
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bilo koja vlada je potencijalno najgori klijent na svijetu
12:58
you could ever possiblymožda want to have.
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kojeg biste mogli poželjeti.
13:01
And there was a lot of terrorteror.
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I bilo je mnogo terora.
13:04
But there was an underlyingtemeljne supportpodrška.
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Ali postojala je i osnovna potpora.
13:07
And so there was a momenttrenutak
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I došao je trenutak
13:10
when suddenlyiznenada -- actuallyzapravo, the nextSljedeći thing.
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kada odjednom -- zapravo, iduća stvar.
13:12
This is the headglava of U.K. TradeTrgovina and InvestmentUlaganja,
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Ovo je čelnik britanske Trgovine i investicija,
13:15
who was our clientklijent,
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koji je bio naš klijent,
13:18
with the Chinesekineski childrendjeca, usingkoristeći the landscapepejzaž.
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s kineskom djecom, koristeći krajolik.
13:22
(VideoVideo) ChildrenDjeca: One, two, threetri, go.
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(Video) Djeca: Jedan, dva, tri, idemo.
13:32
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
13:34
THTH: I'm sorry about my stupidglup voiceglas there.
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TH: Ja se ispričavam zbog svog glupog glasa tamo.
13:36
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
13:38
So finallykonačno, texturetekstura is something.
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Dakle, konačno, tekstura je nešto.
13:41
In the projectsprojekti we'veimamo been workingrad on,
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Na projektima na kojima smo radili,
13:44
these slickgladak buildingsgrađevine,
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te glatke zgrade,
13:46
where they mightmoć be a fancyfantazija shapeoblik,
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gdje bi moglo biti otmjenog oblika,
13:49
but the materialityznačajnosti feelsosjeća the sameisti,
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ali materijalnost se doima istom,
13:51
is something that we'veimamo been tryingtežak to researchistraživanje really,
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su nešto što smo doista pokušavali proučavati,
13:55
and exploreistražiti alternativesalternative.
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i otkriti opcije.
13:58
And the projectprojekt that we're buildingzgrada in MalaysiaMalezija
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A projekt koji gradimo u Maleziji
14:01
is apartmentapartman buildingsgrađevine
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su stanovi
14:03
for a propertysvojstvo developerrazvijač.
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za građevinsku kompaniju.
14:05
And it's in a piecekomad of landzemljište
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A nalaze se na komadu zemlje
14:07
that's this sitemjesto.
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koji je ovo zemljište.
14:09
And the mayorgradonačelnik of KualaKuala LumpurLumpuru
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I gradonačelnik Kuala Lumpura
14:11
said that, if this developerrazvijač
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je rekao, ako taj vlasnik građevinskog poduzeća
14:13
would give something that gavedali something back to the cityGrad,
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napravi nešto što će vratiti nekako gradu,
14:16
they would give them more grossbruto floorkat areapodručje, buildableGrađevinsko.
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oni će mu dati više ukupne površine na kojoj može graditi.
14:19
So there was an incentivepoticaj for the developerrazvijač
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Dakle, postojao je poticaj građevinaru
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to really try to think about
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da doista pokuša razmisliti o tome
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what would be better for the cityGrad.
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što bi bilo bolje za grad.
14:25
And the conventionalkonvencionalne thing with apartmentapartman buildingsgrađevine
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A konvencionalna stvar sa stanovima
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in this partdio of the worldsvijet
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u tom dijelu svijeta
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is you have your towertoranj,
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je da imate svoju zgradu,
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and you squeezeiscijediti a fewnekoliko treesstabla around the edgerub,
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i ugurate nekoliko drveća oko rubova,
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and you see carsautomobili parkedparkirao.
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i vidite parkirane aute.
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It's actuallyzapravo only the first couplepar of floorspodovi that you really experienceiskustvo,
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Zapravo, samo prvih par katova doista možete iskusiti,
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and the restodmor of it is just for postcardsrazglednice.
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a svi ostali su samo za razglednicu.
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The lowestnajniža valuevrijednost is actuallyzapravo the bottomdno partdio of a towertoranj like this.
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Najniža vrijednost je zapravo u donjem dijelu nebodera poput ovog.
14:45
So if we could chopkotlet that away
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Dakle, ako bismo mogli to odrezati
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and give the buildingzgrada a smallmali bottomdno,
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i dati zgradi malo podnožje,
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we could take that bitbit and put it at the topvrh
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mogli bismo uzeti taj komad i staviti ga na vrh
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where the greaterviše commercialtrgovački valuevrijednost is for a propertysvojstvo developerrazvijač.
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gdje se nalazi veća komercijalna vrijednost za građevinara.
14:55
And by linkingpovezivanje these togetherzajedno,
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I povezujući to zajedno,
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we could have 90 percentposto of the sitemjesto
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mogli bismo imati 90 posto zemljišta
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as a rainforestprašuma,
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kao prašumu,
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insteadumjesto of only 10 percentposto of scrubbyribanje treesstabla
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umjesto samo 10 posto zakržljalih drveća
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and bitskomadići of roadcesta around buildingsgrađevine.
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i komadiće ceste oko zgrada.
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So we're buildingzgrada these buildingsgrađevine.
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Dakle, gradimo te zgrade.
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They're actuallyzapravo identicalidentičan, so it's quitedosta cost-effectiveisplativ.
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One su zapravo identične, stoga je to prilično troškovno učinkovito.
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They're just choppedsjeckani at differentdrugačiji heightsvisine.
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One su samo odrezane na različitim visinama.
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But the keyključ partdio
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Ali ključni dio
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is tryingtežak to give back an extraordinaryizvanredan piecekomad of landscapepejzaž,
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je pokušati vratiti natrag izniman dio krajolika,
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ratherradije than engulfprogutati it.
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umjesto okružiti isti.
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And that's my finalkonačni slideklizanje.
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I to je moj posljednji slajd.
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Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
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Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
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15:47
JuneLipnja CohenCohen: So thank you. Thank you, ThomasThomas. You're a delightzadovoljstvo.
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June Cohen: Dakle, hvala ti. Hvala ti, Thomase. Bilo je zadovoljstvo.
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SinceOd we have an extraekstra minuteminuta here,
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Kako sada imamo dodatnu minutu,
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I thought perhapsmožda you could tell us a little bitbit about these seedssjemenke,
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možda bi nam mogao reći malo više o tim sjemenkama,
15:55
whichkoji maybe camedošao from the shavedobrijana bitbit of the buildingzgrada.
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koje možda dolaze s obrijanog dijela zgrade.
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THTH: These are a fewnekoliko of the teststestovi we did
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TH: Ovo su neki od testova koje smo radili
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when we were buildingzgrada the structurestruktura.
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kada smo gradili strukturu.
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So there were 66,000 of these.
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Dakle, bilo ih je 66.000 takvih.
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This opticoptički
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Ova optika
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was 22 feetnoge long.
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je 6.6 metara dugačka.
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And so the daylightljetno was just comingdolazak --
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I stoga je dnevna svjetlost dolazila --
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it was caughtzatečen on the outsideizvan of the boxkutija
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uhvaćena je s vanjske strane kutije
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and was comingdolazak down to illuminateosvjetljavaju eachsvaki seedsjeme.
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i spuštala se kako bi osvjetlila svako sjeme.
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WaterproofingHidroizolacija the buildingzgrada was a bitbit crazylud.
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Učiniti zgradu vodootpornom je bilo pomalo ludo.
16:22
Because it's quitedosta hardteško to waterproofVodootporno buildingsgrađevine anywayu svakom slučaju,
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Jer je ionako teško učiniti zgrade vodootpornim,
16:25
but if you say you're going to drillbušilica 66,000 holesrupe in it --
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ali kada kažete kako ćete izbušiti 66.000 rupa u njoj --
16:29
we had quitedosta a time.
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dobro smo se zabavljali.
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There was one personosoba in the contractorsizvođači who was the right sizeveličina --
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Postojala je jedna osoba među fizičkim radnicima koja je bila prave veličine --
16:36
and it wasn'tnije a childdijete --
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i nije bila dijete --
16:38
who could fitodgovara betweenizmeđu them
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koja je mogla stati između njih
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for the finalkonačni waterproofinghidroizolacija of the buildingzgrada.
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a koja je privela kraju proces postajanja zgrade vodootpornom.
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JCJC: Thank you, ThomasThomas.
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JC: Hvala ti, Thomase.
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(Pljesak)

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Thomas Heatherwick - Designer
Thomas Heatherwick is the founder of Heatherwick Studio, an architecture and design firm that, among other projects, designed the astonishing "Seed Cathedral" for the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010.

Why you should listen

Thomas Heatherwick founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 with his aim being "to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice." On the team, architects, landscape architects, designers and engineers work from a combined studio and workshop, where concept development, detailing, prototyping and small-scale fabrication take place. The studio's work spans commercial and residential building projects, masterplanning and infrastructure schemes as well as high profile works of public art.

From his biography at the Design Museum:

Heatherwick finds pleasure in what other designers might perceive as unconventional commissions, like the entrance and carpark for Guys Hospital, near London Bridge. He responded with an organic woven façade, created from stainless steel braid that requires little maintenance and creates a new system for routing traffic. In this context, what Heatherwick cites as his dream design job is unsurprising: a large-scale car park for the 1970s new town, Milton Keynes. “It’s is a weird place but I find it exciting because its infrastructure is taken so seriously,” Heatherwick explains, “It needs multistory car parks. But what world-class example of a well designed car park can you think of? There’s not much competition and they’re a very cheap building typology so you could build the best car park in the world for a fraction of the cost of the fanciest new art gallery… I’d like to work on the world’s best car park.”

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