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Is This a Third Year Project University?

It's weird because it doesn't look like it's really been designed. I find it strange that this is by a professor of architecture. He's extremely amateurish and he likes his amateurishness. But he's not a talented amateur even. It's like, why are the two washing machines in the master bedroom? What is going on? With a special alcove. Perhaps they have really noisy sex and they want to have some other noise. Some kind of comedy. Oh my. Yeah, there's this sweet little niche. It looks very uncomfortable. What is that like binning? How would you grade this? Nowadays we look for reasons not to pass them. You

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