{"id":1032,"date":"2013-06-14T17:07:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T17:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:14:04","slug":"starachitect-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Starachitect Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fascinating article,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/de-meuron-von-gerkan-and-ingenhoven-on-german-construction-headaches-a-905472.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starchitect Trio: The Men Behind Germany&#8217;s Building Debacles<\/a>, in Spiegel&#8217;s Online International site where the German journal interviews three &#8220;star architects&#8221; working on projects in Germany. Each of them, Christoph Ingenhoven, Meinhard von Gerkan and Pierre de Meuron are working on major projects in Germany that experienced huge cost overruns.\u00a0 The article is actually a group interview of the three architects by Spiegel and they go into quite a bit detail about the projects: the Stuttgart 21 Train station by Ingenhoven, the Berlin Branderburg International Airport by Gerkan, and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall by de Meuron.\u00a0 In a situation that is quite different than the architect&#8217;s role in the US, these architects also serve as the general contractor so there responsibilities for the costs are much more direct than for US architects.<\/p>\n<p>The costs of the projects also include components that are not part of the original scope of the projects.\u00a0 Yet their attitude that lying may be a necessary part of getting these large projects to be undertaken is both quite straightforward and shocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fascinating article,\u00a0Starchitect Trio: The Men Behind Germany&#8217;s Building Debacles, in Spiegel&#8217;s Online International site where the German journal interviews three &#8220;star architects&#8221; working on projects in Germany. Each of them, Christoph Ingenhoven, Meinhard von Gerkan and Pierre de Meuron are working on major projects in Germany that experienced huge cost overruns.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}