September 2025

Property development and operation live in a tension we can’t ignore. On one side are materials, approvals, codes, budgets, programmes… the cool logic that keeps buildings upright and projects viable. On the other hand, the people who will live, work, gather, and rest inside those buildings are unpredictable, emotional, and gloriously human.

As architects, we have the joy of gazing into the future and imagining what it might be like. At BWA, we lean on the deep work of others to inform our work. One landmark piece we rely on is a 2013 paper in Science called “The End of History Illusion” by psychologists Jordi Quoidbach, Daniel Gilbert, and Timothy Wilson.