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00:01They say the auditorium is acoustically perfect, one of the best in the world.
00:06It was the best building we designed.
00:08Good evening.
00:09You are not making a decision on just another building.
00:14This is a building of international significance.
00:19My mother turned to me and said, does that young man say anything?
00:24I always said too much and you always said too little.
00:27Architects Miles Warren and Morris Marnie were a true partnership.
00:32He was articulate and confident, which I wasn't.
00:36Morris chose to stay in the background.
00:38Miles ended up being the kind of front man.
00:41I intended to look after a lot of the services, toilets, the drains.
00:46He's being more modest.
00:48Well, it had to be done.
00:50They created a significant period in New Zealand architecture.
00:55He brought back the English freestyle architectural ideas where you actually made a sculpture.
01:00These buildings brought something new to people's lives.
01:03I'm a great believer in the old adage, people get the buildings they deserve.
01:06In the mid-1960s, the whole question of how to design a concert hall was effectively up in the air.
01:13They really didn't have an acoustical clue about what they were doing.
01:20There might be a moment in the process where you think, my God, it's going to work.
01:25This is a case where New Zealand led the world in concert hall design.
01:30Oh, my God.
01:34Your life's work disappears.
01:40We were going to get things done and get them done quickly.
01:45We better it is even quicker.
01:47There is something terribly wrong in our city when people say it's okay to knock down repairable buildings because they're in the wrong place.
01:55The point is I had an opinion. I don't back off that opinion.
01:59It certainly can be shaved.
02:01It must be.
02:02The sense of presence is a gift.
02:10It's of the same family as grace and love.
02:15None of those can be engineered.
02:22You can be lucky in this life or unlucky if we were just damn lucky.
02:32Then, don't lie.
02:34I'm going to throw this out here.
02:37This is your person who only the person nur was ceiling surface.
02:39The nível of the space falling.
02:43You know.
02:51You just have to walk.
02:55I come back, singing, singing, singing.
02:56I've both walked all.
02:58I can feel like I have no idea.