Design-Build: The Future Of Construction?

"...[D]esign-build is gaining the respect of the industry. Ten years ago, design-build customers primarily wanted office or distribution structures of vanilla, boxy architecture. Today's customers are using design-build to create all building types... Some architects, however, question whether design-build fosters quality. Design-build gives design oversight to contractors, who generally focus more on budgets than architecture, critics say. 'There's a place for design-build,' says Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, an international architectural firm based in New York. 'But we much prefer to work with owners to achieve design and then work with a contractor to meet a budget.'"