No. 15: Pudong - View from Office Conference Room

It's like your imagination right in front of you when you sit in the office day dreaming about fantastical design. With a daily view like this, it makes it very easy to feel inspired and motivated about the responsibility of design and construction. But then I have never felt like architecture is a 9 to 5 office job...

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

-James A. Michener,