We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.