Hampton Avery Architects

On the Boards

It’s funny how jobs wind up with nicknames in an office. Usually it is just the clients name, the street name, address, etc. since those are easy and tend to avoid confusion. Sometimes though, it’s a characteristic of a job or client that gets attached. For example, on a recent job the clients were a couple who both happened to have the same avocation, teaching actors how to fight and otherwise be convincingly violent on stage. Even though they are two of the nicest and  most easy going people I know, the job got the shorthand of “the violence guys”

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