Buildings take time. Time to design and time to build. The image on the left is of a recently completed project of mine for the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland. From start to finish, I was involved with this project for over three years. 18 months of that was involved with the construction alone. Who knows how long discussions within the VA started about this addition prior to my involvement. Three years of my life and a lot has changed for me. I'm now over 30, I have a three year old son and the car we purchased is almost paid off.
I've learned that we have to pick where we can design in our projects. Going through design school, I was under the impression that everything would be 'high-design.' If you're one of the fortunate people who get projects like art museums or other high-profile public projects then that's probably a fair statement to make. For everyone else, you have to pick what and where you can make a space special. In this project, there were two locations. One location was in the main waiting room. The second place is shown in this picture. It's the curved corridor along the perimeter of the building. It's not much, but it's something and its a space that turned out well. Of course, being involved so intimately with the project I can see the annoying little details that came up in construction in this image. But if I forget about those for a second and stand back, I can see a nice piece of architecture.
brian
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