Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 43, 50 fl | U/C

[creative]

I really don't think that beauty comes from a set of government standards... Beauty comes from people actually caring about a place and that's really fucking hard to create and maintain when so many are in the business of just extracting as much as they can and moving on - local government included.

How do we create better "customers" for architects and better citizens that demand more from the built environment?

Would be interesting to me to see are more dynamic process for positive design input from panels of candidate residents, current residents (not just the NIMBYs), etc. Especially if that rewarded some faster or easier pass through approvals that did have economic upside.

What type of ROI are local developers making on their building projects. How much more does it cost to design and build “nicer buildings”. Are most of our local builds financed by private equity? If so there is usually a guaranteed ROI on those finance deals. If margins are too thin, what is the incentive to build. Not an expert. Just asking.