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…and thats how they get ya…

If y’all are interested, I can get more photos next time I drive out there. The grocery store in that development is the only place in the region that carries my preferred brand of imported Italian finely grated sheeps milk hard cheese.

Goes back even farther than that – same sentiments expressed in ancient China. INCLUDING complaints about the horrible music kids listen too!

There is NO WAY that was not designed by engineers.

pre-emptive location reinforced concrete volcanoes?

I think they had their fun making giant mulch berms. They even have them on BOTH sides of the sidewalk in the middle of the parking lot that connects the huge grocery store to the fake main street, with parking on both sides of it. You mount the mulch just to use the sidewalk. Oh, and them planters (30″ diameter) also are at the intersections,…[Read more]

Think how frustrating it is for the landscapers ….. they are denied the ability to make mulch volcanoes.
 

Seems ok, Edward, but as an eternal student, my favorite into to the art was by our geology professor, Giegengack, telling us stories of notorious and hilarious failures, mostly by the Army Corps of Engineers. The second most interesting presentation was Sir Peter Shepherds slide shows on design details, aboslutely magical presentations full of…[Read more]

I don’t think young people are that much different in 2013 as they were when I got out of high school in 1980. Some are/were respectful, studied hard, and worked hard and some …. not so much. However, I do believe that adversity forces motivation and that there has always been easier times and harder times that affect generations in general…[Read more]

Is Socrates hiring? Whats their website address?

Oh how the young ones are not the same as they used to be.  

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their…[Read more]

So people don’t step on the children’s toes.

You ain’t kiddin’. This is a pretty big development with a Target, a theater, a fake poorly done “main street’ and a huge grocery store. There are probably a few hundred of these planters with trees in them on site. All the parking shade trees and decorative Crape Myrtles are in them, the line the sidewalks, and actually block vehicular views at…[Read more]

Vectorworks has this feature in Landmark – fantastic program, good value and you save the cost many times over in the saved work time that would go to calculating, counting, transcribing etc.
 

There was a main street “beautification” in the 70’s in a NC downtown set up like this (only difference: square boxes). I later heard the explanation that the merchants didn’t want trees in the ground as they might “hide” the stores. ??? (which the huge boxes actually did to an extent and cost more than putting the trees in sidewalk…[Read more]

wowzer… that’s a doozy.

haha… very good day.

Good day for the precast salesperson.

your right. that is the best conventional, at this point one could argue traditional, way to get past what happened. pass the exam and start practice.
the right thing would be for CLARB to hear the complaints of all of their candidates and provide the credit. but we all know by now (from past experiences) that CLARB is not a stand-up, exemplary,…[Read more]