An Architect's life is full of life’s ups and downs so far as unfulfilled opportunity goes!
Sometimes, as illustrated here, some really significant projects have been nurtured from the what if?
stage, through the options?
to the let's do it!
stages, culminating in the exciting what would it look like?
to the can we get planning approval?
stages. There is often one final aspect that ruins our future. This is the we can't raise the financing!
stage.
Hundreds of hours often elapse between the first stage and the last of those listed. Like an unwanted toy from childhood, these projects usually get tossed away into a drawer or a computer file, never to be seen again. We decided to lift the corners of some of these past pleasures to show the reader some of the things that fell by our wayside. It is important that we recognise that “good” or “bad “ experience has a common property… it is experience itself, and experience is what we strive to offer our clients.
The first project below was very exciting and, as the site for which it was planned has never been yet been utilized, it still has a flickering of some of the surviving what if?
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