Major buildings increasingly demonstrate the ingenuity of structural engineers to provide distinctive form. Indeed, most buildings dubbed iconic by the press could be criticised as whimsical and arbitrary - the engineer's contribution. Which might lead to the question as to why clients employ architects at all - why not eliminate the middle man and go directly to the structural engineer? To broaden this question beyond the balance sheet, could architecture now proceed, even progress, without new engineering developments?
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