http://thecraftofarchitecture.com/materials/glass/the-scariest-guardrail-detail-known-to-man We focus on the details of Architecture Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:01:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://thecraftofarchitecture.com/materials/glass/the-scariest-guardrail-detail-known-to-man#comment-7 JT Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:00:33 +0000 http://thecraftofarchitecture.com/materials/glass/the-scariest-guardrail-detail-known-to-man#comment-7 the guardrail design might be less a function of the ego of the architect than the architect's anticipation of the boldness of the future occupants. you're not going to have mom and pop with their little rugrats living in a unit with a price threshold near or at a million while cluttered with plastic toys. you'll have brash, young or old captains of industry, risktaker-types testing their friends mettle by jokingly locking them out there for 10 minutes in the wind. the guardrail design might be less a function of the ego of the architect than the architect’s anticipation of the boldness of the future occupants. you’re not going to have mom and pop with their little rugrats living in a unit with a price threshold near or at a million while cluttered with plastic toys. you’ll have brash, young or old captains of industry, risktaker-types testing their friends mettle by jokingly locking them out there for 10 minutes in the wind.

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