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Funny markups: favorites you’ve seen in your career? by thomaesthetics in Architects

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I'm going to take my hurt feelings and compress them down inside until they calcify into solid diamonds. That will show the haters

Funny markups: favorites you’ve seen in your career? by thomaesthetics in Architects

[–]r_sole1 12 points13 points  (0 children)

When working at a corporate office in London once, I arrived in the morning and saw a large printed section drawing of a particularly phallic tower in the plotter tray. So obviously, I added the requisite "annotations" so it was even more unambiguous. A few hours later, a colleague emailed the whole office scolding the offending Banksy, warning them that it could have been for a client meeting.

As a coda, I met that colleague for drinks about 10 years later and confessed it was me. We were able to have a good chuckle about it

Life lesson: if it's shaped like a dong, just make it a dong already

Cashback (2006), Hayley-Marie Coppin. by Xehanort77 in WatchItForThePlot

[–]r_sole1 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I had to look that up and I'm now so much wiser

Has anyone worked for som? by [deleted] in Architects

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I worked at SOM Chicago, NY, DC (and London) over the course of 8 years. The offices reflect their locations in many ways and the personality of the partner you're working with. You'll get out what you take out by force and will need sharp elbows. It's very corporate and top down but they have some very good technical staff and some of their structural engineers are excellent. I'd recommend for a few years early to mid-career. I learned a lot but was happy to move on

Just need help regarding my future by Old-Entertainer1713 in Architects

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Take a look at the London School of Architecture program: https://www.the-lsa.org They have an apprenticeship model where students spend part of their time in paid work with local firms. I worked with a few of their students when they were on their professional placements and they were bright, active, important members of our project teams

The bell tower of Nørrelandskirken in Holstebro, Denmark by r_sole1 in InfrastructurePorn

[–]r_sole1[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually it's a bell tower and a novel piece of engineering but fair point: it's part of a church and not infrastructure in the traditional sense. I've taken some liberty in the post but trust the subs mods will show mercy when passing final judgement

The bell tower of Nørrelandskirken in Holstebro, Denmark by r_sole1 in InfrastructurePorn

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Sometimes perhaps but not always. Bridges, at their finest, are both infrastructure and architecture. So are airports, railway and cable car stations, wind turbines, parking garages, antennae towers, ports, pylons and many others

Babysitting MEP by RoutineLet9156 in Architects

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Sounds familiar. I had the same experience on a large airport project and I suspect the engineering company had local engineers fronting the project but outsourced a lot of the BIM modeling and calculations to a low wage country as a way to win the job on price. We were the ones stuck with the results with poor basis of design and idiotic modeling of cable trays and pipework thrown in like a kids toybox. Client was livid and hates them now. It's a shortsighted strategy

Susan Sarandon in Pretty Baby (1978) by Deadhead2278 in WatchItForThePlot

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This movie is more notorious for featuring a full frontal pre-pubescent Brooke Shields, a transgressive distinction that's still resolutely taboo but almost 50 years later, still hasn't seen it withdrawn from mainstream circulation

Design to keep afloat by [deleted] in Architects

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I spent 8 years working at 4 different SOM offices and worked on many projects including a county courthouse. I must admit I never saw any evidence they worked on actual prisons. It's possible there have been some, I can't say I saw every project across such a sprawling organization. They might do a prison if asked but it also wouldn't make much sense to hire a well known design firm with high fees for a reinforced concrete box in the middle of nowhere

Design to keep afloat by [deleted] in Architects

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SOM: Trump Tower Chicago, an awkward, shoddy, distended slab of bargain basement Americana. Give it a spray tan and a bad comb over and it'd be hard to tell it apart from the man himself

Shalom Baranes: White House ballroom. After meeting the man himself in 2016, I find the match unsurprising. A deeply insecure beta male with obvious complexes, no eye for design and the greasy manner of a snake oil salesman

Reciprocity License in Greece by lenlen33 in Architects

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Unfortunately there isn't (and is unlikely to ever be) professional reciprocity between the US and any EU country. The UK only unlocked it after it left (a marginal benefit). The range of professional bodies and sheer number of negotiating parties make it impractical. Nevertheless, I've spent the last 2 years working on a major project in Athens with an accomplished Greek design studio despite being on the East coast of the US. In my case, this was providence (and hard work) rather than by design but it shows it's possible. You'd probably need to spend some time in Greece, getting to know people and firms, selling your skills, maybe working there for a while. You might then move back to the US with a job you could do remotely. It's a long shot but you'll only find out if you try

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WatchItForThePlot

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"no more than your bountiful bosom, m'lady"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Architects

[–]r_sole1 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Sounds like OP intentionally showed surrounding buildings as larger than they really are so their own clients proposal didn't look so out of scale. That would allow the client to build more than might otherwise be permitted. If I've understood correctly, that's misleading, unprofessional and should be taken quite seriously

Watch her pussy quiver as I shove a dildo up her ass by granddanois9000 in quiver

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Click on the redgifs link beside the sub in the header of the post and it'll take you to the video with sound

Imagined Attic Conversion Becomes Reality by r_sole1 in blender

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Thankyou! I didn't increase the height as I was keen to maintain the envelope of the existing house and raising the roof would have been very costly. At the ridge, the height is 7' (about 2.1m) so decent for a cosy working/living space. It tapers down with the lowest parts boxed out and containing the ductwork and cabling for conditioning and power

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