There are lots of people at our company who dedicate their time and effort to make sure that the journey from product design to hitting the screen is as seamless as possible.
I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'
The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
Don't bring on the design engineers too soon. One of the worst things you can do in the early phases of a project is to bring on a bunch of detailed design engineers and then not give them clear direction and close supervision.
Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
Spend 10% of the project budget making sure you understand problem, the key technologies involved, and have looked at all of the options before you dive into the detailed design.
Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.
