Time to blog again. It has been more than two months since the last post sorry readers. I have been pretty busy getting my architecture license tests taken and out of the way. I am happy to post that I am 6/9 of the way there! I have the 7th test coming up in about a week, wish me luck.
For this post I would like to briefly discuss a quandary that I am in, yes, a quandary. This particular dilemma stems from a short conversation Friday night. A good friend and fellow architect friend and I were discussing the latest issue of Architecture Review. This entire issue is devoted to the new, it thing, skyscrapers. This has been discussed before, even on my blog, however I bring it up again because I am in a quandary.
I am part of the camp that believes the skyscraper "thing" has gotten out if control. There are so many new designs out there it is just a flood of buildings that reach for the sky. There is a problem though these "new" designs are not that... New. I feel that there is only so many ways you can slice an egg, and there are only so many ways you can create a successful tall building design. What then ends up happening is so called innovative designs. which are more like Halloween costumes of buildings, that are terribly inefficient and overpriced.
Getting back to my quandary, it is that I am designing skyscrapers. Not as big as the ones that make magazines, but tall buildings where shorter more efficient buildings would make more sense and costs much less. Given the current economic times I am more than thankful that I am still working and designing skyscrapers. I hope that little by little I can take this experience and mold the next building projects we get as time also will heal the economic future.
