Well I guess there is also Brock Pierce’s crypto loft.

Really bums me out that the douchiest spot in DC these days is a club named after Edwin Lutyens and located in the old City Paper building.

As hanami, flower blossom viewing, spread among commoners during the Edo period, so too did the popularity of cherry blossoms in woodblock prints.

This visual tradition carried into the Meiji era through hand-colored photographs and postcards - but something curious emerges here. 🧵
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Zachary Parker. The dark blue is nice and strong, but doesn't clash with the urban context. Things go wrong from there. Using white text on yellow for the candidate name is eye-catching but not eye-keeping. And just what is that tea adding here? 4/10. I know your staffers follow me so...

When Justin Shubow was a 3L at Yale he was allowed to teach a straight up course on Straussian thought using Straussian methods.

Sounds like a cool class!

In this case, it’s difficult to discern how much of this is about gender or anti-left contrarianism.

for me, the craziest part of this article was that ex-MSG employees were moving like Le Carre spy novel characters just to talk to a reporter

Alex have you seen the level of reading comprehension on this site?

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I would simply ignore everything we know about economics when designing roads.

Leave DC out of whatever awful cocktail scene you’re talking about!

This one’s new to me!

I agree… but consider the audience.

Yep

Queens has got it all

Screengrab from NBC news of 3D models (to scale) of the stupid arch, the Washington Monument, and the Capitol building, and good god, it is a civic duty and patriotic praxis to piss on the wet concrete footings, litter anything and everything you can on that site, and try hard to ruin it. Image of the CFA chamber with the arch at maybe 1/64 scale and the Washington monument and Capitol at 1:200 or so

This post is not accurate; they are at different scales.

People misunderstanding presentation documents and the crit format is also one of the reasons CFA has tried to stay low profile in the past. NCPC is very transparent in contrast and it ends up with much more choreographed meetings.

They've already built the bunker It wouldn't be the first time Donald Trump blew one of the country's biggest secrets.

Maybe, but the bunker project predates Trump by decades.

He is a Lewis Carrol character

These guys are all just bored failsons

Trump arts commissioner wants 3 arches in DC, not 1 A President Trump appointee to the federal Commission of Fine Arts proposed adding three arches to the nation’s capital instead of one, alleging that it aligns with the original Pierre L’Enfant pla…

The important context to this is that Mimsy just likes arches. That's his whole thing. He tried to build one at Barney Circle (as the article notes) and his main job is running a pointless arch with a museum in Atlanta.

We all know this face. It's what you get when you try to build something nice in America.

I know my time will come

I made a giant rice cooker pancake today and while it was cool to look at I deeply regretted that I bought bisquick.

All of the NCAS guys have serious Confederate sympathies.

You could also tell how they learned it since they didn't understand how to use its collaboration tools, scheduling, and other grunt work.

Outside of the elite schools, pretty much. My CUA and VT reports used it natively and could barely use Rhino.

The reason this is more than a niche software opportunity comes down to what Al is actually unlocking. Across all three layers, the bottleneck is the number of qualified people available to do the available work, and the speed at which they can operate. In other words, these are capacity-constrained fields in the world of atoms, which can actually be made much more efficient with the right software. What makes the transition easier than it sounds is that large firms have already modularized this work. Unable to hire fast enough, most of the biggest firms have offshored the repetitive, lower-complexity tasks to large teams overseas. That work is already measured in output rather than hours, already priced as a discrete deliverable, and already sits outside the core workflow. Al doesn't need to change how firms think about this work. It just changes who, or what, is doing it.

It's absolutely the case that AutoCAD and offshoring killed the drafting room. Revit was the next iterative step in this process of removing architectural labor, and AI will likely kill offshoring.

This may sound like a setup for a simple disruption story. It isn't. Revit's dominance has persisted not because Autodesk is protecting it aggressively, but because the problem it solves is genuinely hard. AEC design requires reasoning simultaneously about 3D geometry, physical constraints, building code, room occupancy, and equipment specs - while coordinating with teams making their own changes in parallel. Every serious challenger has stalled at the same wall: how do you teach software to actually *understand* a building, not just display it? How can you enable real-time collaboration? And if you can solve that, how do you get teams to trust your software when the stakes are this high?

It's nice that they're acknowledging that construction demands a lot of tech, and I think they're spot on that the biggest issues are related to the workflows getting things in and out of Revit. But the Industry Foundation Classes project didn't really take off.

Every Building You've Ever Been In Was Designed By Software Built in 1997 | Andreessen Horowitz Attacking a $13 Trillion Market

Andreessen Horowitz is coming for Revit.