HecticArt Wonderful Architecture Work

That’s pretty nice.
It looks like a LOT of work to take care of.
I guess if you’ve got $8m for a house, you’ve got cash to pay people to take care of it too.
 
It's becoming a big trend. There are a few more rules to follow for fire safety during design, but it makes a lot if sense when you consider that most commercial buildings aren't designed to last more than 50 or 75 years or so. Wood will last longer than that if taken care of, and the environmental impacts are better.

Toyo Ito does some fun stuff.
 
I recently watched an old Kirk Douglas movie where he was an architect who mostly worked from home. Also Brady Bunch Dad Mike worked from home a lot too. Was that one of the perks of getting into the profession, or just isolated instances from pop culture?
 
Ben McKenzie played troubled teenager Ryan Atwood on the 2003-07 Fox series The O.C. On the final episode, it was revealed that he had become an architect.

 
Aaron said:
I recently watched an old Kirk Douglas movie where he was an architect who mostly worked from home. Also Brady Bunch Dad Mike worked from home a lot too. Was that one of the perks of getting into the profession, or just isolated instances from pop culture?
Click to expand...
It's common, especially for small practices.
It's generally a portable kind of a profession, especially for overtime work, which is kind of written into the job description.

Unfortunately, computers make it a lot easier to take our work home with us.
 
This is the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, designed by I. M. Pei. It's where the Dallas Symphony Orchestra plays.

1688563863395.webp

It's also where my next-door neighbors (the doctors) had the wedding for one of their kids.
1688561763200.webp

I was told that just the bar tab for the rehearsal dinner was $77/pp. I think the wedding was something like $200k. The family their kid married into is also loaded. We got to watch their dog for 5 days.
 
scotchandcigar said:
This is the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, designed by I. M. Pei. It's where the Dallas Symphony Orchestra plays.

View attachment 8913

It's also where my next-door neighbors (the doctors) had the wedding for one of their kids.
View attachment 8912

I was told that just the bar tab for the rehearsal dinner was $77/pp. I think the wedding was something like $200k. The family their kid married into is also loaded. We got to watch their dog for 5 days.
Click to expand...
Hold on. We can first all agree that architects are the the lowest of the low as far as humanity goes.

77 per person for a bar tab. That's a fucking expensive open bar.

And 200 to rent the place?
Fuck me. If I'm paying that much it better be the fucking Sydney Opera house like an opera house people actually know about not some weird shit in Dallas.

Also fucked Dallas. Stupid cowboys and all their dumb shit.

But really it makes me think so. The place costs $100 to rent out for 2 hours let's say and then 77 bucks a plate. You got 200 people. That's about 16,000. So you're looking at 120. Where does the other 80 come from?

It is pretty though.
 
Last edited:
JHDK said:
Hold on. We can first all agree that architects are the the lowest of the low as far as humanity goes.

77 per person for a bar tab. That's a fucking expensive open bar.

And 200 to rent the place?
Fuck me. If I'm paying that much it better be the fucking Sydney Opera house like an opera house people actually know about not some weird shit in Dallas.

Also fucked Dallas. Stupid cowboys and all their dumb shit.

But really it makes me think so. The place costs $100 to rent out for 2 hours let's say and then 77 bucks a plate. You got 200 people. That's about 16,000. So you're looking at 120. Where does the other 80 come from?

It is pretty though.
Click to expand...
I sincerely doubt architects set the prices or receive the proceeds. If they did, why would some of them live in Toledo?
 
JHDK said:
Hold on. We can first all agree that architects are the the lowest of the low as far as humanity goes.

77 per person for a bar tab. That's a fucking expensive open bar.

And 200 to rent the place?
Fuck me. If I'm paying that much it better be the fucking Sydney Opera house like an opera house people actually know about not some weird shit in Dallas.

Also fucked Dallas. Stupid cowboys and all their dumb shit.

But really it makes me think so. The place costs $100 to rent out for 2 hours let's say and then 77 bucks a plate. You got 200 people. That's about 16,000. So you're looking at 120. Where does the other 80 come from?
Click to expand...
This is what happens when you skim. The rehearsal evening is separate from the wedding. My neighbors are the parents of the groom; so I believe they covered the entire rehearsal evening, including the function hall/restaurant, dinner, and open bar. And I think it was perhaps for 300 to 500 people.

The wedding event itself was in the ballpark of $200,000. And I'd guess that in the Dallas area (where the bride's family and newlyweds live), the Symphony Hall facility is probably the largest and most prestigious place that can be rented to host a wedding. And Dallas is not cowboy territory; it's very upscale, urban, and expensive.
 
scotchandcigar said:
This is the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, designed by I. M. Pei. It's where the Dallas Symphony Orchestra plays.

View attachment 8913

It's also where my next-door neighbors (the doctors) had the wedding for one of their kids.
View attachment 8912

I was told that just the bar tab for the rehearsal dinner was $77/pp. I think the wedding was something like $200k. The family their kid married into is also loaded. We got to watch their dog for 5 days.
Click to expand...
That's a good looking building.
I can't afford drinks there.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom