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Easily the biggest news of last week, and probably of this year, was the unveiling of BIG\'s design for 2WTC. For a project of such status, on such a highly charged site, representation must be handled with expert care \\u2013 so to dig a bit deeper into the splashy video introducing\\xa02WTC, we spoke with Nick Taylor, co-founder of Squint/Opera and director of the BIG video. We cover Squint/Opera\'s historied relationship with architects and how creative vision is managed across many powerful stakeholders.

Paul and Amelia also sat down with McShane Murnane, architecture director and co-founder of Project M Plus, a husband-wife creative studio out of Los Angeles\' Silver Lake. Often viewed as a case-study for gentrification in LA, Silver Lake has established a highly specific aesthetic within the Californian sensibility, that has its pros and cons \\u2013 we speak with Murnane about how he\'s dealt with issues of developmental displacement head-on.

And in the news, we discuss how\\xa0Tadao Ando\\xa0is faring amidst serious health concerns, speculate on what fantastical designs might come out of\\xa0SpaceX\'s newly announced competition for Hyperloop pods, and take a moment to recognize the death of Charles Correa, who passed away Tuesday at 84 years old.