To be fair, a lot of it happened the day I accidentally fell down that elevator shaft. Ted: I poured all my blood, sweat and tears into that building. Marshall: That project really was your baby and now it's over, you're scared to move on. But instead, what am I designing? What has my career led to? A two-story Stetson with outdoor dining on the brim. Bridges that could be considered works of art and should be on museums. Ted: I could be designing concert halls, and bridges. He forgot to account for the weight of the books. But every year, it would sink a couple inches into the ground. Ted: There's this famous architecture story about this architect who designed this library. Top 8 HIMYM Quotes About Architects and Architecture: #WhenYouAreAnArchitect people say, "Oh, like Ted Mosby?"- ARCHITECT Magazine February 3, 2014 The bank headquarters gets built, landing Ted, 33, on the cover of New York Magazine as the youngest architect to design a skyscraper in New York City. While a professor, Ted also restarts the project with GNB, but not without a preservation battle due to the bank’s plans to tear down the Arcadian, a historic hotel. Then Ted starts teaching architecture at Columbia University, where he receives fairly high ratings from his students.
His biggest commission-a restaurant shaped like a Stetson cowboy hat-falls through, so Mosbius Designs folds up. Awkward.) Mosby then decides to start his own firm, Mosbius Designs. He then gets hired by Goliath National Bank (GNB), but the project gets scrapped due to a downturn in the economy. He showed his design to Robin, the first time he had ever shown his drawings to someone outside of work. Ted didn’t like his boss’s design of a skyscraper so he created his own-overnight. Ted was working for an architectural firm in New York, but his boss was a jerk.