WHITNEY GOULD of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel writes:
I would be a very rich woman if I had $1,000 for every visionary design scheme I have seen that never got built. What too often happens is some variation on the following:
Architect offers proposal. Residents don't like this, don't like that. Community leaders listen to loudest, crabbiest voices. Client loses nerve. Design gets dumbed down.
As the pattern is repeated, endlessly, it's no wonder that some beleaguered architects stop trying to innovate. Timidity quashes faith in the future; a sense of place is lost to blandness.
Presented with plans for a drop-dead beautiful development on its main street, Whitefish Bay stands poised either to repeat that sorry ritual or finally break free of it.
Link: JS Online:'The Bay' parries Bayshore juggernaut with inventive verve.
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