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#impassioned drunken speeches in hotel bars about architectural theory and the inherent beauty of physics
formula-fun · 6 months
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au where charles is an architect and max is the structural engineer whos forced to deal with him and the target audience is me
#the premise: they both work for huge london firms#charles is an associate and he's working on this project in italy thats unnecessarily elaborate and organic#its like. zaha hadid meets rem koolhaas#like its just a lot#max really doesnt want to deal with it but his firm has an agreement with charles' firm#and they all drew straws and max lost because he was late to work that day because he was hungover#so now its his problem#the project is a multibillion dollar art gallery in italy owned by lewis hamilton who is an art dealer#every piece of this thing has to be custom made. every beam every joint every window#the whole thing#max and charles have to travel across europe constantly to all these different factories to oversee the quality#its really REALLY annoying#but they bond a lot during their trips and actually it turns out they have really similar tastes and ideas#they both want to do more or less the same things#impassioned drunken speeches in hotel bars about architectural theory and the inherent beauty of physics#that kind of thing#at the end they quit their jobs to start their own firm#they shamelessly poach all their friends from their previous companies#the hamilton deal actually falls through as well because it turns out lewis is fucking charles' principal (sebastian)#their firm immediately fires him and then lewis hires him privately#and sebastian designs him this very nice little sustainable vernacular architecture gallery which wins like 10 awards#its on the cover of architectural digest. the founder of his previous firm? fuming.#and they all live happily ever after the end#writing tag
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