When architects re-invent the wheel

The contemporary look is back in Park City's new homes and the alpine design on the way out. As always, architects,who seem to hit the creative block, have this inbred need to re-invent the wheel and throw the baby and the hot-water out of the window.

Gone are sloped roofs that drain well and overhang that protect from the summer sun. In are flat roofs that puddle up before they leak, and huge windows that work wonders to fry-up their occupants and rev up the air-conditioning system.

This doesn't prevent the same architects of torturing their new-found designs into being “environmentally sound”, even though I have my doubt about that quality, and to churn out designs that have nothing timeless about them and will age as quickly as their previous incarnations concocted in the 70s. The more (bad) things change, the more they stay the same!