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Originally Posted by troutman
Local firms aren't often asked to produce anything interesting. My wife is an architect. Local clients are conservative, and generally want plain, functional, cheap buidlings.
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I'm a designer myself, and while I can sympathize with that, I feel like part of our job is to educate and direct our clients into the right direction. We all know that Calgary clients are conservative, but you would think once in a while you'd get somebody who lets you do what you really want. Where are those projects? Often times the downfall of locally designed projects are things dealing with aesthetical choices and details, not big massive shifts in philosophy/budgets. Choosing crappy colors or tacking on ornamentation is a result of lack of imagination, not budgets.
Besides, local firms are more than welcome to enter competitions worldwide. What has Gibbs Gage, probably the biggest architect in town who gets a ton of work, done anywhere that's even in the same ballpark as Norman Foster or Calatrava?