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haele

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14. I'm thinking his reputation was destroyed as soon as he signed into the project.

Reply to sop (Reply #4)

Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:02 PM

Thursday

How could he not see the differences in comparitive scale between the proposed ballroom and even the footprint of the building it was going to replace - not to mention the building it was going to be attached to?
They learn things like scaling and ratios in Architecture school, don't they?
What did he think he was going to be doing doing on a historical Federalist building style site - an avant-guard complementary addition like the glass pyramid at the Louvre?
On edit - I've seen my 9 year old grandkids design Minecraft city building attempts with better proportional scaling between the buildings.

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