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I have no clue. I don’t relate to any of that. I get a client, a budget and a programme. I am a traditional architect and try to do a building that doesn’t leak! This is an understatement. People visit your buildings to admire your style. What is your style? I did a 76 story tower in New York. We have a relationship with French aerospace computers. We built that with no changeovers so we could afford it. Why are there bubbles and nipples? We wanted bay windows at forty or 60 floors. Bays of unobstructed view and kind of out in space. The shape of those folds is respectful of the Woolworth Tower which is a beautiful terracotta building. I made the bays on my building the same scale as the terracotta panels on the Woolworth. The top of the Woolworth has a golden dunce cap on it and I convinced my clients not to put a hat on theirs out of respect. The buildings talk to each other. You were born in Toronto and now are building two big towers near your grandmother’s place. Is this a kind of Rockefeller Center from Frank Gehry? I wanted it to be an ensemble and for there to be some community between them. They had two sites and a theatre on each site with world class productions and it is close to the concert hall and close to the lake. A lot of towers are built as rugged individuals but as two we could have an ensemble, a dignified expression. The Rockefeller Center is a place, not just one tower after another. A great achievement in your home town? The residential towers are built related to the markets. I am hopeful that they will be built, but as the markets are so volatile there is no guarantee. Are you proud of all the many prizes and award you have been given? Yes. I am proud of it but I don’t display it a lot or make a pronouncement about it every time I open my mouth. I like to work in creative insecurity and don’t get stuck on one thing I have done. I like the experience of working with my clients and I decorate their dreams. Now you are financially comfortable and make many acts of philanthropy? We have 27 schools in California and I do a lot of philanthropy. I was asked by the mayor’s office to look at the LA River because New York had built the High Line and basically put green plants on a rusty old bridge. The LA River is a flood control project. We took it on, not being paid, and I spent the last seven years studying the LA River. We came up with an index of what the river must do for the city and what we could do with it. You cannot do what the dreamers want with its 51 miles. It floods, and if you take the concrete out the floods will displace a lot of communities, in the thousands. We studied the economics of people living beside the river. In the south of LA a lot of communities have no park space. They get fumes from the 710 Freeway and are getting gassed out. We asked if the concrete can’t come out can we put a park on top and so we are proposing that only for areas of the river that have no park issues. Kids have a ten years shorter life span there, this is a serious issue. The county appointed me as planner for the river. We are creating 40 acres of park where the need is great. The budgets are normal, in the 100s of millions not in billions. Within a reasonable range of cost for projects like this. How many hours do you work? All day long and in the evening and Saturday. I like to sail every couple of weeks. I have a nice sailing boat. I designed a boat for a friend and he put it in LA so we have access to it. And then I have