"When I was a young structural designer, one of the experienced architects came over and chewed me out for designing a stair that was fine functionally, but was quite ugly. He told me that a structural engineer should design a structure so that the architect feels bad if he has to cover it up"
-Bill F. Baker, SOM.
(The Burj, Dubai, world's tallest building, 108 floors, 818m height, "Fritz Leonhardt Prize", 2009)
http://www.som.com/content.cfm/william_f_baker
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