[HN Gopher] Learning from Marble Arch Mound ___________________________________________________________________ Learning from Marble Arch Mound Author : nvarsj Score : 13 points Date : 2022-02-22 12:03 UTC (10 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.mvrdv.nl) (TXT) w3m dump (www.mvrdv.nl) | 323 wrote: | Their project: RTX On, latest GPU | | Actual thing: lowest-res CPU rendering | jfengel wrote: | tl;dr: don't blame the design, somebody did a crummy job of | building it. | | Though the real money is in the conclusion: | Perhaps we should not have worked for a fee so low that it | allowed the client to sidestep the usual procedures. Perhaps when | we were pushed out of the construction process we could have | stepped out because we couldn't guarantee the project's quality. | This is certainly our greatest sin: we should have ended our | participation precisely at that moment. | | That makes sense. The project they designed would need extensive | landscaping maintenance, and can't be done on the cheap. | | Though I gotta say, they were picked because they'd apparently | done a bang-up job on a project in Rotterdamn that doesn't look | all that interesting to me. The scaffolding makes it look like | it's under construction. Still, somebody liked it, and it's | unclear why they went from a similar design to a "mound". ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-22 23:00 UTC)