It's hard to predict how quality may be affected by increasingly twitchy anti-terrorist design requirements.
The most fundamental anti-terrorist design requirement is not the specification of anti-blast glazing or super-strong structures, but the prevention of ram-raids by lorries packed with high explosives – which is why the frenzied corporate appetite for tall, distinctive buildings is putting anti-terror design to its biggest test.
A terrorist attack designed to tear us apart has instead bound us together as a nation.
They did so by allowing one of the world's most feared terrorists to design his own vacuum cleaner.
The violence at the church "is a terrorist attack designed to embarrass the government," said the Islamabad police chief, Nasir Khan Durrani.
"The attempt at this point by the New Jersey State Police to characterize her as a terrorist is designed to inflame the public who may be unfamiliar with the facts".
"The enemy has increasingly embraced terrorist acts designed to intimidate the Iraqi people, and just as importantly to create a picture of chaos," he said.
So, how should a rational security system deal with "recent and relevant information" about the "devilish technical skill of those terrorists who design ever more sophisticated means of concealing explosives"?
"Allawi Predicts More Strife, but Says Voting Will Go On" (//www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/articles/21allawi.html), by John F. Burns, contains more information about the interim Iraqi prime minister's response to recent terrorist attacks designed to disrupt the planned elections.
On Friday morning, Salhi, a married father of three, had rammed his van into the US-owned Air Products chemical factory in what President François Hollande said was a "terrorist" attack designed to blow up the building.
"The care he took in terms of meetings with his co-defendants... lends further support to his role as the organiser of major terrorist activity designed to the strike at the very heart of both America and the UK and to cause the loss of human life on a massive scale," said Mr Lawson.
