Moshe Safdie 2: How to reinvent the apartment building

TED 2014
Moshe Safdie 2: How to reinvent the apartment building (transcript)
Summary
The speaker is an architect who designed “Habitat’ 67” which is now a heritage building.
Habitat 67 is the famous monolithic apartment built about 50 years ago in Canada.
Although it's an apartment, it has gardens and connects with nature and streets instead of corridors. It gives each unit unprecedented sense of desirable openness.
Nowadays, in the cities, there are many high-rise buildings and traffic congestion. Housings are too dense to achieve qualities of life. He noticed they need light, sun, and nature when he saw a lot of dense areas.
His goal is that housing should be a space having openness. Every unit has own private garden and community space. It does not form a wall or an obstruction in the city and light permeates everywhere.
He designed the world's longest swimming pool in Singapore also.

Words in this story
monolithic /adj/ formed of a single large block of stone.
unprecedented / never done or known before.
desirable /adj/ preferable, likeable
congestion /noun/  crowding, overcrowding, obstruction, the state of being congested.