Beverly Spears of Spears Architects in Santa Fe says. And there's that looming bank loan ready to pounce and eat a commercial borrower alive. Very few developers have bags of money lying around waiting to be used up on a building. Although their renowned development, Seaside in Florida, is residential, the theory holds up in the commercial arena as well. Their philosophy looks back to small-town America to resolve the 21st century development dilemmas that now beset our depersonalized urban landscape.
Borders has a corporate policy of no windows in their retail stores.
But the city of Santa Fe, the developer and the architect encouraged a rethink and windows went in. Surprisingly, nowhere is this consciousness more clearly apparent than with the federal government. The new border patrol complex in Santa Teresa is an example of the kinder, gentler government architecture, Burns says. The border patrol stations are concerned about their image. There is an enforcement side involved but they want to make sure the facility is on the positive side.