For instance, the architect explains that "the first time I came here it was just green and we thought it was so nice" (D3), but, since the ground was polluted, it was not possible to walk on it and it would have been expensive simply to cover it over.
Proctor S. Harvey, the landscape architect, explained that about eight or nine years ago the Lynchburg City Council decided to invest $5 million a year in downtown.
But to those who might consider it a tad kitsch, John Simpson, the project's architect, explained that he wanted something respectful of the palace's own Neo-Classical design, but "slightly more frivolous and much more approachable".
Mr. Bronfman, the former chairman of the Seagram Company, and Mrs. Bronfman, an architect, explained that their "friendship is stronger without being married" and that they wanted to thank their friends for the support.
"We press the buttons when we want to change the view," the architect explained.
Wheelwright designs in a contemporary mode, so there was no question of getting what Simmons calls "a heavy Victorian thing your grandmother made by hand," but, as the architect explains, "it wasn't just the style that needed updating".
"In Beijing's Heavenly Temple", the architect explains, "the 'tam' is the wide open space for communing with the gods.
"Design is a very personal statement," said David Kamp, a Manhattan landscape architect, explaining that he typically gets his business from homeowners just after they have bought rather than before they plan to sell.
The event's creative director, Aurelie Paradiso, a designer at Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, explained that kite-making and architecture have more in common than it might seem.
She listened enthralled as the architects explained how a light railway would extend through the razed old docks.
