552. That's how I grew up
During his time in Rui Shiguo, two unpleasant things also happened, and both of them were at dinner.
Hua Zhenxing is a master chef and gourmet, and it is his daily hobby to make a table of wine and food to eat and drink, and he pays attention to the fun of meeting confidants with wine, and also likes to talk about things at the wine table.
Some people say that it is a Dongguo-style dinner, and people always like to put things on the wine table to talk about. In fact, it is similar all over the world, and there are many such "foreign dinners" that Hua Zhenxing participates in.
Someone passed through Rochard and invited Feng Zibin to dinner. This is indeed a rare opportunity, because I don't usually see Feng Zibin at all.
The organizing committee invited 50 professionals and 50 celebrities from all over the world, and this time the person who wanted to invite Hua Zhenxing to dinner was Mr. Bringen, one of the 50 professional judges.
Mr. Bringen, 57, was a professor at the University of Peace, where he served as an adviser to the government and later as the deputy minister of housing and urban development when he ran for a successful presidential election.
After stepping down as vice minister, he is now the vice president of the Association of Architects of the United States, and is also a senior advisor to several large construction groups and design institutions, and is very influential in academia, politics and business.
Since Mr. Bringen took the initiative to send out an invitation and asked Rogrid for an introduction, Hua Zhenxing took the time to go to the dinner as a guest of the wind, and the dining place was the most upscale in Rui Shiguo, but in fact, the dishes were average.
After the meeting, there was a courtesy greeting, and Feng Zibin gave the other party due respect, after all, he was a professional judge invited by the organizing committee. Mr. Bringen brought an aide with him, and Feng Zibin went to the appointment alone, along with Rogrid.
Bollingen's remarks, intentionally or unintentionally, revealed that he had done his due diligence and determined that the central figure in the preparation of the Habitat Prize was not Ktya, but Feng Zibin.
His conclusion is not refuted, and Feng Zibin does not refute it, because it is indeed true.
The topic of discussion during the dinner was of course around the Huanxiang Habitat Award, and Mr. Bringen asked with great interest the reason and purpose of Fengzibin's preparation for the Huanxiang Habitat Award. And his assistant said very little, but he was always observing the wind and self-binding.
Feng Zibin did not say what the significance of the award was, but chose the most practical answer: he wanted to transform the country of several miles and Huanxiang to build more livable and development-friendly towns and villages.
Therefore, he wants to invite the best team as much as possible, and all excellent design ideas will become a reference for the construction of the project in the future reality.
He then thanked Mr. Bringen for his support of the Habitat Awards as a judge.
However, Bringen changed his style and made a request to Feng Zibin, that is, to exclude the design teams of Mauro and Dongguo from the invitation to the Huanxiang Habitat Award.
Bringen meant that the team in Mauro should never be invited, while the team in the east country should try not to be invited.
To introduce the background, the first Huanxiang Habitat Award did not invite the design team of a university in Mauro, but the second Huanxiang Habitat Award invited the design team of a university in Mauro to join.
There are 10 teams invited by the organizing committee, both in the east and outside the east country, and there is only one design unit invited by the first Huanxiang Habitat Award.
In the second Huanxiang Habitat Award, since the teams of Brussels University, Kangshu University, and Weigong University no longer participated, the organizing committee invited three other design institutions, one from Mauro, and the other two from the United States and the East.
Feng Zibin didn't speak, just looked at Bringen's face.
They were talking in Yin just now, and Bringen's entourage also served as an interpreter in the Eastern Chinese, but the level of translation was really not very good. Feng Zibin was talking about the Eastern Chinese at first, but then he couldn't listen to it anymore and then spoke Yinyu.
Feng Zibin heard it very clearly that Bringen's use of the word in Yin was not "suggestion", but "request".
Not to mention that Feng Zibin was speechless, even Rochard's face was a little unbearable. Seeing the wind, Zibin didn't even want to ask the reason, and in order to ease the cold atmosphere, Roichard had to ask Bringen why this was?
Bringen explained that the United States has imposed sanctions on Mauro in various areas since many years ago. If the design team of Mauro is invited to participate, it will affect the international image of the Huanxiang Habitat Award, and it will not meet the requirements of the United States.
As for the eastern country, Bringen is a different story. In his opinion, in terms of the professional level in the field of planning, Dongguo is quite backward, and the United States is the most advanced in the world.
Ten teams in the east and ten teams outside the east are very unreasonable. If Feng Zibin really wants to make the Huanxiang Habitat Award an international authoritative award, he should make a change.
Feng Zibin has enough self-cultivation on this occasion, and he must also have decent words and deeds, he neither beat people nor scold, so he didn't speak, and kept a strange silence, as if he didn't understand at all.
The most uncomfortable person here was Rochard, in fact, Dr. Luo was only helping to introduce and save dinner, and he didn't know in advance that Bringen would say this at the wine table.
Rogrid had to play a round, not mentioning what Briringen had just said, but asking Feng Zibin why he planned the Habitat Award so much, and what purpose was it considered?
Feng Zibin still gave Rogrid face, and finally spoke, but he spoke Chinese again, and Rohard took the initiative to do two-way translation.
Roshand now has a good level of Chinese, at least much higher than the retinue brought by Bringen.
Feng Zibin: "Mr. Fogen is also one of the founders of the World Habitat Foundation. Last year, the Fugen Foundation acquired the Viking-based Yangyuan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Group, which owns a large Yangyuan United Farm, and plans to build an agricultural and animal husbandry industrial park in the next step.
Those two towns are the industrial parks that Yangyuan United Farm will focus on, and their design and planning plans are also the selection projects of the second Huanxiang Habitat Award.
The latitude of the area where the farm is located is very high, just on the edge of the Arctic Circle, and many parts of Mauro have similar environments and may be more experienced professionally, so we invited a new Mauro design team.
As for all three projects of the first Huanxiang Habitat Award, and the urban projects of the second Huanxiang Habitat Award, they are all towns that will be built in reality, and all design schemes and ideas are related technical reserves.
As for why there are 10 design teams in Dongguo, not to mention that I am a Chinese of Dongguo descent, and not to mention that almost all the residents of Huanxiang Tebang are Dongguo Chinese, and the local language is Dongguo Chinese.
Planning, design and construction are integrated, and for such a large-scale infrastructure construction in Huanxiang Tebang, the country itself does not have this engineering capability, so who has this kind of infrastructure engineering capability in the world today?
When we invited the planning and design units, only half of them were invited, which was already to be inclusive and fully absorb the world's various design styles and advanced levels.
All the design and planning plans are publicly displayed, so that guests and professionals from all over the world can judge, and everyone has their own opinions on the results of the awards, and if anyone's plan is not enough, the world can see. ”
These words should have been addressed to Bringen, but Feng Zibin kept facing Rochard when he spoke, and he didn't even look at Bringen's face.
The character of "Feng Zibin" is a genius investor, a philanthropist with a very humanistic spirit, and also a profligate, adventurous and exciting playboy, who embodies the contradictory side of human nature.
A person like him may not turn his face on the spot out of etiquette, but he doesn't have to look at Bringen's face at all. On the other hand, no matter what kind of character it is, the person behind this identity is still Hua Zhenxing.
So what Feng Zibin said was very real, and there was no lie. Bringen first threw out a conclusion, but the evidence for his conclusion is non-existent, as evidenced by this year's Habitat Awards.
The design and planning plans of the 20 participating institutions were publicly displayed in the special branch venue for nearly half a month, and they were basically works of the same grade, and there was no obvious gap in the level.
The Brussels University project won the inaugural Grand Prize of the Habitat Awards, which was expected. But the other two consolation awards were won by the programs of the University of Technology and the University of Kangshu.
The project won the art award, and there is no problem from the perspective of professional level. On the contrary, the main factor that the Kang Nak University project won the creativity award is obviously with novel or spoofed elements, which is in line with traffic thinking.
Facts have proved that Bringen's sentence "In terms of the professional level in the field of planning, the East is quite backward, and the United States is the most advanced in the world." "It's not true.
Then Bringen's conclusions and demands from this must be for another reason. But what does it have to do with the trend? This is the Joyful Habitat Award, not the Bringen Habitat Award!
The United States has reached the world's leading level in many fields, and until now, many of them still maintain the international top level, but in terms of large-scale infrastructure, it has lost its competitiveness in recent decades.
One of the simplest and most superficial reasons is a lack of practice. At least in recent decades, the rest of the world has not done as much as the rest of the world combined.
Bringen, as a professional in the field, should be well aware of this fact.
Feng Zibin's words were very calm, and it was really difficult to refute, Bringen did not respond positively, put down the knife and fork in his hand, and said in a changed tone: "To design a whole new city, 10 million Luo Yuan is far from enough." ”
Feng Zibin was slightly stunned, because this is also a big truth, but what kind of brain circuit? He had to look at Rogrid and replied: "To what extent you can do it, you can do it to what extent, mainly to reflect the overall style and ideas." ”
When the organizing committee of the award invited the design team a year ago, each company gave 10 million Luo yuan in advance, which is not a bonus, but a start-up fund.
According to Bringen's meaning, it is definitely not enough to spend 10 million Luo Yuan to complete the entire design of a city, even a town.
That's right! But the organizing committee did not mention this kind of request, it only asked each design unit to make an overall planning plan, 10 million Luo Yuan is already a lot. Since it has to be publicly evaluated internationally, it is impossible for the design teams to be perfunctory.
Most importantly, there is another feature of the Habitat Awards that is unmatched by any other award in the field.
In the past, awards in the field of construction or planning and design were given to the results of a project that has already been built and created by the design team and the engineering team. However, the Huanxiang Habitat Award is a blank sheet of paper, and there are only pictures, not physical objects.
Therefore, the organizing committee used another plan to display the holographic sand table virtually. No one can guarantee whether the town projects designed by the teams can be seen in reality, which is why the team from Connay University will come up with that kind of creativity.
Under this premise, there is no difference between a town, a city, or even a country, and to what extent it can be achieved, mainly depends on the overall design idea and level.
In other words, there is not a single owner unit that spends so much money on a project that does not exist. Although Feng Zibin is very rich and likes to spend money, Hua Zhenxing, who stands behind this identity, will never spoil anything.
If you really want to see such a city appear in reality, all the design costs must be more than 10 million Luo Yuan, not to mention the astronomical construction costs.
Bringen means that 10 million funds should not be enough, if more funds are given, the design team can provide better and more perfect solutions, so some teams invited by the organizing committee are redundant.
There are only three projects, but 20 teams are invited, why not reduce the number and focus on only inviting international elite teams to give them the money saved?
Bringen didn't say these words explicitly, but Hua Zhenxing understood his subtext. And Hua Zhenxing didn't explain, and he didn't want to ask any more, so he just said that he would do it to whatever extent he could.
Bringen looked at Feng Zibin and said, "So Lord Feng insists that the current model of the Huanxiang Habitat Award does not need to make any reforms?" ”
Feng Zibin: "Of course, we will continue to improve according to the actual situation, but not according to your requirements. ”
Bringen: "Something that is obviously unreasonable, when it appears in the world, has an unreasonable effect. Everyone who has a mindfulness has a responsibility to correct such mistakes. ”
A certain word in this sentence is not very well translated, and can only be reluctantly translated as "with righteous thoughts", in fact, there is also the meaning of justice, righteousness, guarding righteousness, and representing correct faith.
Feng Zibin finally turned his head to look into Bringen's eyes and said, "So how does Mr. Bringen plan to correct it?" If you think you should use a knife and fork to eat, don't ask others not to use a quick one. ”
Bringen ignored the metaphor of the wind and replied in a solemn tone: "If this is the case, the Huanxiang Habitat Award will be boycotted by the best teams in the world."
The elite design agency team represented by the United States will not accept the invitation of the organizing committee. In the international professional field, the Habitat Award ...... will not be recognized"
Rogrid's face became very ugly, and he didn't continue to translate, he was observing Feng Zibin's face, probably a little afraid that Feng Zibin would flip the table.
Feng Zibin's face did not change, because he had no expression, and replied slowly: "The place where I grew up is full of thugs and criminals.
Even if some people have done nothing wrong, they will be threatened, blackmailed, and demanded. For example, take all the money out of your pocket and give it to him, for example, in that neighborhood you have to listen to him and do what he says.
We don't want to live in that world, so we're building a new world. Mr. Bringen, that's how I grew up! ”