Examine any successful project, and you’re likely to find a team like that. Frank Gehry’s many successes—on time, on budget, with the vision the client wants—have depended not only on Gehry but also on the superb people who have worked with him for years; in some cases, decades. The Empire State Building had excellent planning, as we have seen, but it also had a construction firm renowned for putting up skyscrapers fast.
