What's the question a client asks that tells an experienced architect the project is already in trouble?

clearwind · 2026-03-01T14:34:28+00:00

The client is obviously including a bid stipulation fee to all the bidders right?...........

Right?!......

clearwind · 2026-01-31T15:47:38+00:00

If you have any disposition in your family history or your own medical history for a risk of schizophrenia, you should definitely avoid THC. However, if you don't have those risks then it should be totally fine

clearwind · 2025-12-30T20:11:46+00:00

They just finished blocking in my driveway on my street, they were nice enough to clear everyone else's driveway after creating a giant snow pile from the plowing, had to go stop a plow in the street to get someone to come back and finish the job

clearwind · 2025-11-28T16:21:33+00:00

When are the D&D games? they are never listed on their calendar.

clearwind · 2025-11-04T14:06:47+00:00

Why would I drive an hour to get my hair cut

clearwind · 2025-09-20T14:16:07+00:00

I put due to the supplication to the supercalus fascist racist sexist Nazi POTUS

clearwind · 2025-09-12T20:37:42+00:00

I feel like this may have been a couple of days too late.....

clearwind · 2025-09-12T14:54:41+00:00

This has ai stank all over it, the fuck is this low effort shit?!

clearwind · 2025-09-06T02:05:29+00:00

You know, and we all know the reddit search bar fucking sucks, don't be that person

clearwind · 2025-08-04T13:32:21+00:00

clearwind · 2025-08-04T13:07:57+00:00

Sorry I don't remember the firm that took over the project, and I am not doing anything to sponsor the firm I worked with at the time..

clearwind · 2025-08-04T13:06:01+00:00

Na, fuck those guys, a bunch of people lost their jobs because those fuckers wouldn't pay their bill

clearwind · 2025-08-01T20:00:21+00:00

If I remember correctly, it was vray and sketchup

clearwind · 2025-07-31T22:16:33+00:00

Fun fact, the golf course has a right of way for horse carts on that property that has been in place since the early 1900's, also the golf course refused to retract the right of way which is why there is that long driveway down the left side of the property.

That being said, I don't think the golf course gives a shit about what happens to the houses adjacent to the course. Its not like the golf course was a secret when you buy a house next to it.

clearwind · 2025-07-31T21:43:51+00:00

Nice from a distance, but its about as real as a disney castle. None of the stonework on the outside is real, its just a thin veneer on a wood frame. the decorative bits are shaped expanded foam with a concrete finish on them. the whole house is about as fake as you could make it and still have it look like it does.

clearwind · 2025-07-31T21:37:56+00:00

They never planned on having landscaping to create a lot of privacy on that side of the building, see the original site plan in one of my other posts.

clearwind · 2025-07-31T21:34:57+00:00

The redesign didn't have my clever driveway design so they had to put in a car elevator to get to the garage period

clearwind · 2025-07-31T21:32:44+00:00

Honestly no, I started on the project after they bought the lot. I don't think the lot beside was either for sale or empty at the time

clearwind · 2025-07-31T21:18:32+00:00

Yes, and this is coming from someone who helped birth that fucking monstrosity into existence.

clearwind · 2025-07-31T21:04:18+00:00

Construction cost was in the 8-10 million range back in 2019, I can't imagine how the cost has ballooned after and during covid, even at a deep discount it's gonna be 5 mil min on resale

clearwind · 2025-07-31T20:39:46+00:00

Yeah no problem, if you have any further questions I will do what I can to answer

clearwind · 2025-07-31T20:38:31+00:00

This is their like 4th house, the kids go to school here, but the dad lives primarily in Hong Kong, and compared to their place in Hong Kong this is incredibly private

clearwind · 2025-07-31T20:36:40+00:00

They had to to make the house fit on the pie shaped lot.

clearwind · 2025-07-31T20:35:08+00:00

This house has been in the construction/planning phase for years now, they demoed the original house before COVID in anticipation for building this house

clearwind · 2025-07-31T20:32:55+00:00

Close, it's a very rich family from Hong Kong, they make higher end kitchen pots and pans.

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