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  1. “That's great. She had such a joy to her, and she was so. In her perspective and her opinions. I mean, you know, she made my father look reserved. Whatever she was feeling, she was just very expressive. And a lot of fun to be around.”

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  2. “I think because she was this unbelievable, formidable athlete, and because of the discipline she had as a child, I think it made her value those moments more as an adult. I think she was a great balance of the two that we all hope to find and she was able to find both incredibly serious and formidable. I remember as a little girl I used to literally trap behind her at the plaza hotel, which she oversaw and actually kind of was her old post office. It was this unbelievable historic hotel in New York City. And I'd follow her around at construction meetings and on job sites. And there she is, dancing. See? That's funny that that's the picture you pull up.”

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  3. “So much. She passed away two years ago now. And she was a remarkable, remarkable woman. She was a trailed blazer in so many different ways as an athlete in growing up in communist Czechoslovakia as a fashion mogul, as a real estate executive and builder. Just this all-around trailblazing businesswomans. I also learned from her, you know, aside from that element. To really enjoy life. You know, I look back and some of my happiest memories of her The ocean, you know, just lying on our back, looking up at the sun and just so in the moment or dancing. She loved to dance. She really taught me a lot about living life to its fullest. And she had so much courage, so much conviction, so much energy, and a complete comfort with who she was.”

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  4. “For the most part, he can probably get 90, maybe 95% of the end result, unless something has terribly gone awry by not caring with that level of Almost like maniacal precision, but you'll notice that 10% for the rest of your life, you know? So I think I think that extra effort, that passion, I think that's what separates good from great.”

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  5. “When proposals are put forth by an architect and really just the plan is accepted without, and in the case of a renovation, like if you're not walking those rooms, the number of times a beautifully laid out room was on a blueprint. And then I'd go to Washington and I'd walk that floor and I'd realize that there was a column that ran right up through the middle of the space where, you know, the bed was supposed to be or the toilet was supposed to be or the shower. There's a lot of things that are missed when you do something. Conceptually without sort of rooting it in the actual structure. And that's why I think even with ground up construction as well, people who aren't constantly on their job sites, constantly walking the projects, there's just a lot that's a lot that's missed.”

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  6. “650 acres of property. And so every single unit was very different and complicated. Not as complicated in some ways. The scale of it was so massive, but not as complicated as the old post office. But it required a level of precision. And I think in real estate, you have a lot of people who design on plan. And a lot of people who are in the business of sort of acquiring and flipping. So it's more financial engineering than it is building. And they don't spend the time sort of sweating these details that make something great and make something functional. And you feel it in the end result. But I mean, blood, sweat, tears, years of my life for those projects. And it was worth it. I enjoyed. I enjoyed almost every minute of it.”

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  7. “Twice a week, three times a week to spend day trips down in Washington. And we would walk every single inch of the building, laying out the floor plans, debating over the configuration of a room. There were almost 300 rooms, and there were almost 300 layouts. So nothing could be repeated. Whereas when you're building from scratch, you tend a box and you decide where you want to add potential elements and you kind of can stack the floor plan all the way up. But when you're working within a building like this, every single room was different. You see the setback. So the setback then required you to move the plumbing. So there was no, it was really a labor of love. And to do something like this, and that's why I think renovation, we had it with Doral as well. It was 700 rooms over.”

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  8. “So, I think the greatest asset was already there. The exterior of the building, which we meticulously restored, and any addition to it had to be done sort of very gently in terms of any signage additions. The interior spaces were completely dilapidated. It had been in a post office that was used for a really rundown food court and government office spaces. It was actually losing $6 million a year when we got the concession to build it and when we won and became one of, I think, a great example of public-private partnerships working together. I think the biggest challenge in having such a radical use conversion is just how you lay it out. So the amount of time I would get on that, Axela.”

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  9. “Tremendous amount of energy, vigor, and humility about how to do it properly, ensuring I had all the right people we had countless federal and local government agencies that would oversee every single decision we made. But in advance of even having the opportunity to do it, there was close to two-year request for proposal, like a process that was put out by the General Services Administration. So it was this really arduous government procurement process. That we were competing against so many different people for the opportunity, which a lot of people said it was a gigantic waste of time. But I looked at that and I think so did a lot of the other bidders and say it's worth trying to put the best vision for it.”

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  10. “It's unbelievable So, this was a Romanesque revival building built in the 1890s on America's main street to symbolize American grandeur. And at the time, there were post office being built in the style across the country, but this being really the defining one. Still to this day, the tallest habitable structure in Washington, the tallest structure being the monument, the nation's only vertical park, which is that clock tower, but you've got these thick granite walls, those carved granite turrets, just an unbelievable building. You've got this massive atrium that runs through the whole center of it that is topped with glass. So having the opportunity to spearhead a project like that was so exciting. And actually, it was my first renovation project. So I came to it with a tremendous.”

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  11. “Well, some of the most recent projects I worked on prior to government service were the old post office building and almost simultaneously trumped around Miami. So these were both to just massive undertakings, both redevelopments, which in a lot of cases. Ground up construction redevelopment projects are In a lot of ways much more complicated because you have existing attributes, but also a lot of limitations. You have to work within, especially when you're repurposing a use. So this, the old post office building on Pennsylvania Avenue was...”

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  12. “I remember when I was first learning about bridges, studying the cables day versus the suspension bridge. And I mean, you actually built many replicas, so I'm sure you'll have a point of view on this. But they really are so beautiful. And you mentioned the Brooklyn Bridge, but growing up in New York, that was as much a part of the architectural story and tapestry of that skyline as any building that's seen in it.”

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  13. “See, it's interesting that they call it Devil's Bridge because to me, this is very ethereal. You know, I think about the ring, the circle, life.”

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  14. “The lobby of your building, or they got married in the ballroom and share with you some of those experiences. So to me, that's equally as beautiful. The use cases for these unbelievable projects. But I think it's all of it. I love. I love that you've got the construction and you've got the design and you've got then the interior design and you've got the financing elements, the marketing elements and it's all wrapped up in this one effort. So to me it's exciting to sort of flex in all those different ways.”

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  15. “I'm most emotionally drawn, obviously, to the beauty Think as somebody who's built things. I really believe that the form has to follow the function. Like there's nothing uglier than a space that is ill-conceived that, you know, otherwise it's decoration. And I think that after sort of that initial reaction to seeing something that's... Aesthetically, really pleasing to me when I look at a building or a project. I love sort of thinking about how it's being used. So having Able to build so many things in my career and worked on so many incredible projects. I mean, it's really, really rewarding after the fact to have somebody come up to you and tell you that they got engaged”

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  16. “Is more critical than ever as we think about how much of our infrastructure relies on concrete and how much of that is failing on the most basic level. So I think actually it's a really, really exciting time for innovation in architecture. And I think there are some incredible examples of modern design that are really exciting. But generally, I think Roosevelt said that comparison is the thief of joy. So it's hard. You look at the tribune building, you look at some of these iconic structures. One of the buildings I'm most proud to have worked on was the historic old post office building in Washington, D.C. You look at a building like that. And it feels like it has no equal”

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  17. “It's huge. And in the context of a city where there's a lot of hype. So it's unbelievable. But I think one of the things that's probably exciting me the most about architecture right now is the innovation that's happening within that. You know, there's example of robotic fabrication. There's 3D printing. Your friend and who you introduced me to not too long ago, Neri Oxman, which he's doing at the intersection of biology and technology and thinking about how to create more sustainable development practices quite literally trying to create materials that will biodegrade back into the earth. I think there's something really cool happening now with the rediscovery of ancient building techniques. So you have self-healing concrete that was used by the Romans. An art and a practice of using volcanic ash and lime that's now being rediscovered.”

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  18. “I'm living in Miami currently, so I see a lot of super uninspired glass But I think exceptional things shouldn't be the norm. You know, they're typically rare. And I think in modern architecture, you find Abundance of amazing examples of super compelling and innovative building designs. I mean, I mentioned the Burj Khalifa. It is awpiring. This is an unbelievably striking example of modern architecture. You look at some older examples, the Sydney Opera House. So I think there's unbelievable. There you go. I mean, it's like a needle in the sky”

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  19. “And then if you also go beyond the rendering, right? You have to live with the materials. So you don't build a 92-story building glass curtain wall. Deeply examine the actual curtain wall before purchasing it. So you have to spend a lot of time with the actual materials, not just the beautiful sort of artistic renderings, which can be incredibly misleading. The goal is actually that the end result is much, much more compelling than what the architect or artist rendered. Oftentimes that's very much not the case. You know, sometimes also you mention context, you know, sometimes also renderings of buildings. I'm like, wait, what about the building right to the left of it that's blocking 80% of its views? You know, the, you know, architects, they'll remove things that are inconvenient. So you have to be rooted.”

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  20. “I think it depends. Like, they have super reflective glass that sometimes doesn't work. It's distracting. And I think it's one component of sort of a composition that comes together. I think in this case, the glass on Trump Chicago is very beautiful. It was designed by Adrian Smith of Skidmore Owings in Maryland, a major architecture firm, who actually did the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which is, I think, like an awe-inspiring example of modern architecture. But glass is tricky. You have to get the shade right. Some glass has a lot of iron in it and gets super green. And that's a choice. And sometimes you have more blue properties, blue, silver like you see here. But it's part of the character.”

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  21. “This was built maybe a decade before the tribune building, but the tribune building to me is almost not replicable. It personally really resonates with me because one of the first projects I ever worked on was building Trump Chicago, which was this beautiful, elegant, super modern all-glass skyscraper right across the way. So it was right across the river. So I would look out the windows as it was under construction or be standing quite literally on rebar of the building looking out at the tribune and incredibly inspired. And now the reflective glass of the building reflects back not only the river, but also the tribune building and other buildings on Michigan Avenue.”

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  22. “I think it's hard to look at something like the Tribune Tower and not be completely in awe. Like this is an unbelievable building. Look at those buttresses and you've got gargoyles hanging off of it. And, you know, this style was remonstrance of the cathedrals of Europe, which was very kind of in vogue in like the 1920s here in America. Actually, I mentioned the Woolworth Tower before the Woolworth Tower was actually referred to as the Cathedral of Commerce because it also was in that Gothic style.”

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  23. “Building the best of the best, so nobody's giving New York their sort of second rate work. And especially when a lot of those buildings were built, there was this incredible competition happening between New York and Chicago for kind of dominance of the sky and for who could create the greatest skyline that sort of raced to the sky when skyscrapers were first being built starting in Chicago and then New York surpassing that in terms of height at least with the Empire State building. So I love sort of contextualizing the skylines as well and thinking back to when different components that are so iconic were added and the context in which they came into being.”

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  24. “Think the water is an unbelievable feature of the New York skyline as you see the island on approach and oftentimes you'll see like in these images you'll see these towers reflecting off of the water surface. So I think there's something very beautiful and unique about that. When I look at New York, I see this unbelievable sort of tapestry of different types of architecture. So you have the gothic form as represented by buildings like the Woolworth Building or you'll have Art Deco as represented by buildings like Forty Wall Street or the Chrysler building or Rockefeller Center. And then you'll have these unbelievable supermodern examples or modernist examples like Lever House and Seagram's house. So you have all of these different styles. And I think to build in New York,”

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  25. “I remember the first time I went to Dubai and I was watching them dredging out and creating these man-made islands. And I remember somebody once saying to me they're an architect, an architect actually who collaborated with us on our tower in Chicago. He said that the only thing that limited what an architect could do in that area was gravity and imagination. So it's, you know.”

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  26. “Think in some ways you look out at different city skylines and it's almost like a visual depiction of ambition realized, right? Like it's a testament to somebody's dream, not somebody. Whole ensemble of people's dreams and visions and triumphs and in some cases failures if the projects weren't properly executed. So you look at these skylines and it's a testament to that. I actually heard once architecture described as frozen music that really resonated with me.”

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  27. “Get conditioned out of that feeling. We start to become insecure, and we start to rely on the input or validation of others. And it takes us away from that sort of core drive. And ambition. So it's fun to reflect on that and also to smile, right? Because whether you can execute or not, time will tell. But yeah, no, that was very much my childhood.”

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  28. “It's funny because we're all so insecure, right? In the most basic interactions, but yet our ambitions are so unbridled. In a way, the kind of like makes you blush as an adult. And I think it's fun. It's fun to tap into that energy.”

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  29. “There's project planning, just the duration of time to complete one of these iconic structures. It's enormous. You can contribute a decade of your life to one project. So while you have to think big picture, it means you really have to care deeply about the details because you live with them. So it allowed me to flex a lot of areas of interest.”

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  30. “With architecture, there's the tangible. And I think that marriage of function and something that exists beyond yourself is very compelling. I also grew up in a family where my mother was in the real estate business working alongside my father. My father was in the business and I saw the joy that it brought to them. So I think I had these natural positive associations they used to send me as a little girl renderings of projects they were about to embark on with notes asking if I would hurry up and finish school so I could come join them. So I had these positive associations, but I came from something within myself. I think that as I got older and as I got involved in real estate, I realized that it was so multidisciplinary. You have, of course, a design, but you also have engineering, the brass tacks of construction, there's time management.”

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  31. “You know, I think there's Both an incredible confidence and a total insecurity that comes with youth. So I remember at 15, I would look out over the city skyline for my bedroom window in New York and imagine where I could contribute and add value in a way that I look back on and completely laugh at how confident I was. But I've known since some of my earliest memories that something I've wanted to do. And I think I fundamentally, I love art. I love expressions of beauty in so many different forms.”

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