1 April

Buildings look like inanimate objects, but notice what happens almost the day they're abandoned. They get trashed. Buildings and people form a sort of ecosystem, they need each other. A building is a living thing, an institution. Facilities managers know this, that the greatest unspoken cost of all building is 'maintenance', the ongoing cost to keep a building alive. Architects rarely think about it. One of the scariest things in the world for me right now is the enormous amount of infrastructure that has been built over the last century, where the ongoing upkeep hasn't been costed. Concrete in particular, most of it is crumbling.