"There are three key aspects to a building project Cost, Quality and Time.

The problem is only 2 can be achieved"

Today  I would like to bring your attention to a little known quote by the grand architect "Le Corbusier"

"The history of Architecture is the history of the window"

This simple little sentence to me sums up a little understood aspect of architectural design, the importance of fenestration design.

The key defining aspect of any building is its relationship between the inside and outside. Indeed without any relationship between the inside and outside a building could be seen as merely a box.

Further more the actual detailing and proportion of the windows is in my opinion key to the aesthetic success or otherwise of an architectural composition.

Today the blog Quotes John Ruskin, champion of the Arts and Crafts and modern painting.

It’s unwise to pay too much. But it’s worse to pay too little.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all.

When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

The common law of business balances prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can’t be done.

If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run.

And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.

There is hardly anything in the world that someone can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper—and people who consider price alone are this man’s lawful prey.

I completely agree with Vitruvius.

"good architecture must comprise of in equal measure Commodity, Firmness and Delight"