“It’s a clear, simple and concise concept,” says Thomas Corrato, project architect with Hickok Cole, the Washington firm that created the design. “The idea was about how to make the space a connection between architecture and the person on the street.”
The design also aims at changing how people perceive the profession. “We’re viewed as possibly compared to lawyers, and that’s a low hurdle,” says Michael Hickok, partner in Hickok Cole.
— washingtonpost.com
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how about greater transparency in 'design' licensing?
does anyone else feel like the aia and ncarb just spends money like there is no tomorrow on the worst ideas possible?
I think this design looks very nice, but I find it highly and sadly ironic that if the goal was to make the space a connection between architecture and the person on the street the way to achieve that connection was through glass, a kind of anti-material material, when used in this way. It's like the architecture is pushed to the sides of the plate glass. But I do think the space looks lovely and achieves what it's trying to do.
I don't know why we can't band together and just get rid of the AIA. They only make a difficult profession more difficult.
Maybe this project should be entered in The Beauty Pageant.
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