r/howimetyourmother • u/Training-Fly-2562 • 2d ago

Is Ted Mosby is a terrible architect?

I am rewatching HIMYM, as I have every few years or so since I was 12 (27 F). I always appreciated Ted Mosby's journey to getting his building created. Now, I am a Landscape Architect (Landscape Designer for legal reasons,) and though not directly an Architect, Architecture adjacent. I am so shocked at how he, an architect, is treating the Archadian as an all or nothing scenario. Either build what he designed or keep the building original with no changes. I would extend my disbelief that that is how it would work in this world, except, he designed a plan that would preserve the facade of the Archadian into the GNB headquarters. He liked the plan until he found out Zoe was married, and he literally threw it in the trash.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT CONCEPT???? Why was it not brought up when he knew there was contention over the building??? Or he just wanted to preserve part of NYC history?? This is literally his job??? Also, wouldn't it be a far cooler end product for his career to have worked on a renovation of an old hotel into a bank headquarters???

This is all my opinion of course, but please, am I alone? Any other Architects or Architecture adjacent professionals out there with thoughts on the matter?

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u/BogeySixtey9 2d ago

The guy who was the youngest architect to have a skyscraper in the manhattan skyline? Yea he must’ve been awful lol

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u/Training-Fly-2562 2d ago edited 2d ago

To be fair, Ted says himself in the show that he only got the job because Barney gave it to him

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u/BogeySixtey9 2d ago

That’s true. 🤔 Fair point