"What I like in architecture, or consider 'beautiful" in it may not be the same as your ideals, even if you are an architectural professional.  Nearly no architect ever paid for a building themselves, they work for clients with different needs and tastes, who hold the purse strings.  in the case of public buildings (sorry, elite architects and Whitehouse officials) it really is up to those who will pay for and use the buildings - citizens who will use it, employees and contractors who will work there, etc.  The architect's job is to find the best path to the best building while considering the many stakeholder's needs plus the economic and energy-use outcomes for public buildings.  The Whitehouse has no business in prescribing the style of these buildings, they do not belong to the administrators, who are temporary leaders, theoretically in service to the people."

"Great simple component, probably easy to ship and perhaps easy to install (except for two nearly identical pieces to identify, the steeper one and the lower-angled one?) - BUT - doesn't take up less floor space (many other racks do a good job of that), has a tire-slot that limits the width of the bike tire, therefore, the kind of bike that can be secured there, could I kick the upper end free of the wall, use it as a lever, and yank the whole thing away from the wall and break the floor mount?  I think so, then I have your $2000.00 road bike.  To install it, I have to install two connectors foe each bike to be stored, but with many competitor's products, there are far fewer connections to make per bike, often only four or so for multi-bike racks.  interesting concept, but needs to be thought out much better, I think."