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But the truth is that these are mostly one-offs, boutique projects, not easily reproduced at a global scale.
但事實是這些往往都只是個例，精品工程沒辦法輕易的在全球范圍內普及。
And that is the point. When you use materials that have a local significance, you prevent cities from all looking the same.
但這也就是它的意義所在。當你去使用這些具有地方特色的建材時，就能夠避免城市外觀趨于一致。
Copper has a long history in New York -- the Statue of Liberty, the crown of the Woolworth Building
在紐約，銅的運用已有很長的歷史了，自由女神像和伍爾沃思大廈的樓頂都是如此，
but it fell out of fashion for a long time
但是它已經脫離時尚界多年，
until SHoP Architects used it to cover the American Copper Building, a pair of twisting towers on the East River.
直到SHoP建筑師們在建造東河岸的一對扭曲塔樓American Copper Building時，再次使用了它。
It's not even finished and you can see the way sunset lights up that metallic facade, which will weather to green as it ages.
它還沒有完工，但你仍能夠從夕陽中看到那耀眼的金屬光澤，知道它們會隨著時間風化成綠色。
Buildings can be like people. Their faces broadcast their experience.
樓房也可以和人一樣。它們的臉上寫滿了滄桑。
And that's an important point, because when glass ages, you just replace it,
這是很重要的一點，因為當玻璃老化的時候我們就會把它換掉，
and the building looks pretty much the same way it did before until eventually it's demolished.
這樣那些樓房看起來始終都是一個樣子，直到最終銷毀。
Almost all other materials have the ability to absorb infusions of history and memory, and project it into the present.
幾乎所有的材料都有能力去吸收并融納歷史和記憶，并把這些都呈現于當代。
