{"id":3593,"date":"2013-09-04T12:18:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T12:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2013-09-04T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T12:18:44","slug":"910-projects-never-built-something-for-architecture-students-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/910-projects-never-built-something-for-architecture-students-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/10 Projects never built – something for architecture students to remember…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was watching BBC’ Unbuilt Britian recently (CLICK HERE FOR THE BBC UNBUILT BRITAIN SITE<\/a>) which included an interview with Lord Norman Foster who gave a statistic that nine out of ten architects projects will never go ahead and get built.<\/p>\n In my experience the reasons for this can be numerous; especially financial reasons at the moment – unable to raise finance, building dependent upon selling and moving…. Other reasons have nothing to do with design; I written about this previously in ‘It’s not the design that will scupper your planning application’<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you’re a budding, young architect it’s something to bear in mind; the drawings you’re toiling over may never see their constructed form. I remember this wake-up call in my first Part I job where I’d spent months working on a refurbishment and the developer changed his mind and the project was dumped.<\/p>\n As for my statistics, I did a quick tot and since I’ve been working in Ireland; the unbuilt projects are approximately 70%.<\/p>\n Better then the average but still heart-breaking.<\/p>\n It’s often said that architects wear black as they are in ‘mourning’ for the projects that didn’t make it.<\/p>\n Would love to hear from other architects with their ‘stats’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was watching BBC’ Unbuilt Britian recently (CLICK HERE FOR THE BBC UNBUILT BRITAIN SITE) which included an interview with Lord Norman Foster who …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,17,40,53,62,73,78,85],"tags":[305,420,703,900,1035,1222,1341],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n