In her opinion, nothing adds more heft to a price tag than the designer label of a prestigious architect.
MONEY & BUSINESS Top of the Line In designing and marketing luxury apartments, designer labels are part of the strategy, whether on appliances or architect's drawings.
The architects' plans label the salon a solarium, with three great doors leading out to the terrace.
While in the Windy City, he may also have planned to pay a visit to the Libby Prison War Museum, home of the original Libby Prison; after the war, an architect had labeled each board, beam, timber and stone and shipped the pieces north, and it was rebuilt and opened in 1889.
His respectful client collaborator later called Roosevelt the first disabled man, as well as the first president since Jefferson nearly 200 years earlier, to deserve the label "architect".
Meanwhile elevators, alleys, concourses and parking garages — the generic and forgettable corners of the architectural landscape, territory architect Rem Koolhaas once labeled "junkspace" — are continuously watched by security cameras and satellites.
Beyond the label of architect, Gaudí left a legacy still applicable today in many disciplines, from ergonomic design to business management.He was a pioneer, ahead of his time, innovative in work processes, as well as being the creator of new architectural forms that we know today.
The architect's original drawing labels the panel "sinkage for sign," although it is not clear if the firm used it.
"Labelling one architect with having produced the worst building of the year without mention of the client, developer or contractor means giving the architect a massive kicking when they are very rarely the sole author of the project," said Charles Holland, director of FAT Architecture.
Both architects have been labelled "organic", which means to say their work is short on straight lines and right angles, but both were less interested in imitating natural forms than divining their essential structures.
