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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 3463242, member: 5058"]
There is a lot that can happen and for the record, they were looking at the work of the group doing this for a long time. They looked very closely at the BC Place project as the best (only?) example of a "rigid" roofing on a building with a direct lineage to the Dome. That project faced enormous cost overruns, and I know SU, being as price conscious (conservative) as they are, wanted lots of assurances that they could control that. Geiger very likely threw the architects under that bus and the Populous team, who's Dome design scheme likely came in well over the target, were jettisoned, making Geiger look prescient and the rest is history. My guess is that there was no punishment about a leaked rendering (at least not with regard to awarding the project) and in fact the leak was probably after the fact, in an effort to get back to the table by drumming up public opinion/outcry. Populous was retained as the design firm for The Barnes Center, and it is my understanding there were cost overruns there too that are mostly attributed to found existing conditions (old building, inadequate MEP systems and infrastructure, tight schedule, the soil was not able to support the addition). This is a very real thing, but I am sure it only made the SU facilities team more confident in their choices.

This is not a smear of Populous in any way. This is the simple reality of project dynamics.
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