Ah. All is explained. Architects are the guys who very often try to sell their work by making a drawing showing the finished building, often drawn as though at a distance impossibly far from the building, because, hey, there are buildings on the other side of the street. Many times architect's renderings do not include people, maybe because that messes up the look. And, of course, the joke:

Why can't architects get into heaven?
Because Jesus was a carpenter.

For any who don't get it, this is a comment on architects designing things that are at least clumsy, and sometimes impossible, to build.


As for me and dimensions, I prefer one system at a time. And inches, not feet and inches. It's all about instant usability. I feel that if I have to multiply something by twelve and add it to a remainder before I can divide it by three, then the dimension is given in the wrong units.

BTW, during our first meeting with the Saudi engineers who were involved in the huge theater project we did last decade, one of my functions was to throw out the metric/feet conversions so the other half of the people would have a sense of the dimensions.

Which reminds me of a funny moment, when we told them that a structure could be made out of plain 2x4s, and they wrote down 2".
By 4".
And I blew them away by telling them that 2x4s measure 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" (3.8 x 8.9).