As architects know well, there is a certain pleasure to be found in a thing well made. This pleasure is so simple, it seems, that it does not warrant further investigation. Architects find little point in discussing the obvious fact that, without a certain minimum degree of precision, a building does not st and up. Likewise, that one can be pleased to come across a structure that holds together apparently against the odds - the work of a designer that has brought ingenuity and finesse to their craft - seems too basic, too obvious, to draw comment. But it is a pleasure about which there is more to say.
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