The window trick of Las Vegas hotels
This topic is vastly more complex that the author realizes. This window placement technique is one of many design facets that create the intended visual impact of these buildings and isn&#x27;t close to their most significant difference to those large functional midcentury apartment blocks. Not only do architects need a 3 year graduate degree and board certification to start their careers, brand new architects are not the ones designing large public buildings. The author assuming that their musings about window placement on Vegas hotels could in any way inform seasoned and well-educated architects&#x27; design approach is pure hubris. Ridiculous.<p>It reads like a non-developer reading a bunch of articles about tech buzzword du jour like blockchain or microservices and then ham-fistedly using that to <i>&quot;explain&quot;</i> the architectural shortcomings of a bunch of complex systems that they couldn&#x27;t hope to understand designed by heavily educated and experienced professionals. An actual developer would roll their eyes but if the author&#x27;s readers aren&#x27;t developers, it not only sounds <i>as</i> credible, it sounds <i>more</i> credible because someone is finally explaining that complex thing in a way that makes sense to people who reason about problems the same way they do.<p>If you want to learn about some knowledge domain like architecture, you&#x27;re a whole lot better off reading architectural blogs than a technical person&#x27;s musings about it. Misconceptions born from a similar perspective to yours are going to seem undeservedly credible and be a lot more difficult to parse and filter out.