Slow news day in the UK.

That's alright then, the affected businesses across the street are now absolutely fine - what business wouldn't want a special screen covering their windows?

Not proper enough, I'd say, and I really think it's unlikely that a model would've undergone testing for sunny summer days, or any for that matter.

I'm sure if the designer had a kid it would've been spotted, maybe he did but just kept schtum for the laughs. :)


Source - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23957986

Only ever seen that done abroad (Iran) never in the UK :o

Ha, you've never worked with architects have you. Even if they make mistakes, it's the contractors job to find all those mistakes during the bidding and building process. Simply, if it's a problem now, forget blaming the architect or think he'll be the one that has to pay to correct the issue, the contractor will. Course, he'll try to pass the blame and get sub-contractors to correct the issue at their cost.

Ha, yes I have, on several occasions. And yes the engineering contractors should have spotted the obvious. Who pays for the fix? The building tenants of course. I'm just expressing surprise that front the architect on no one looked at it and said "Hey that looks like a solar concentrator."