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99% Invisible #01- 99% Noise (Standard 4:30 Version) (04:21)
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This episode of 99% Invisible is all about acoustic design, the city soundscape, and how to make listening in shared spaces pleasant (or at the very least, possible). It ...
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99% Invisible #02- 99% 180 (Standard 4:30 Version Only) (04:30)
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In the beginning, former AIA-SF president Henrik Bull and the Transamerica Pyramid did not get along. The building was an affront to late 1960’s modernist ideals. It was ...
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99% Invisible #03- 99% Reality (only) (Standard 4:30 Version Only) (04:30)
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There’s not much that we can do about all the physical matter that’s been designed and built by someone else. It is the way it is. But with the advent of portable devices ...
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99% Invisible #04- 99% Details (Standard 4:30 Version Only) (04:33)
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It’s a stick with bristles poking out of it. It doesn’t even qualify as a simple machine, but the careful thought and design that went into the creation of the modern, angled ...
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99% Invisible #05- 99% Forgotten (Standard 4:30 Version Only) (04:30)
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At the top of Mt. Olympus in San Francisco, on what was once thought to be the geographic center of the city, is a pedestal for a statue that isn’t there.