I designed a building that families will live in long after I'm gone, and the drawings held everything I believe about how people should feel in a space. Then the budget cuts came, the value engineering, the compromises, and what got built is a shadow of what I saw. I drive past it and feel both proud and quietly heartbroken.
More people experience this than they realize.
What you build outlives you, but the compromises bury the vision you started with.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.