The days passed quickly, and it was winter vacation again in a blink of an eye.
Early in the morning, Sun Dahai and his younger brothers and sisters finished morning exercises and returned home to have breakfast.
I was only halfway through breakfast when a guest came to the house.
"Manager Zhu, why don't you take a good rest? You're here so early."
The person here is Zhu Lihua, manager of the project investment department of Erection Future Investment Company. She just arrived in the capital from the United States early this morning.
Hu Cheng had already arrived in the capital and officially started following Sun Dahai. He was the one who picked up the plane in the early morning and settled down a place for Zhu Lihua.
"I'm jet lagged. I already slept a lot on the plane, so I just need to go to bed early tonight."
Zhu Lihua came with Hu Cheng, and the driver was Er Pang. He came in and looked around, and found that nothing happened, so he told Sun Dahai and drove to the company.
There is no way, Hu Cheng still can't drive.
The company's internal driving training class will not start training for a new batch of drivers until after the Spring Festival, and Hu Cheng will be allowed to study at that time. Anyway, after school starts, Sun Dahai does not need him to follow him during the day.
Moreover, Sun Dahai no longer has a car. The original Ford Ranger has been transferred to the name of the winery, allowing Battelle to drive it to the island city and use it as his special car.
Battelle was a tall man and was used to driving a Ranger. If he was given another car to drive, he would not feel comfortable sitting in it. Sun Dahai simply gave him the Ranger and waited for Hu Cheng to get his driver's license before buying a new car.
Sun Dahai invited her over to have breakfast together. Zhu Lihua was hungry after flying for more than ten hours. She was very straightforward and not restrained at all. After taking off her coat, she washed her hands, sat over and ate a lot.
Eat up.
"Manager Zhu, compared to Xiangjiang, there are fewer types of breakfast here in the capital. Can you get used to it?"
Zhu Lihua stuffed the fried dough sticks into her mouth and said vaguely: "If you can get used to it, these fried dough sticks are good and delicious."
She tried hard to swallow the food in her mouth, and then continued: "I stayed in the United States for three months this time, and basically never left Santa Clara County, where Silicon Valley is located. I almost vomited after eating Western food.
I’m just looking forward to having a Chinese meal.”
"Thank you for your hard work, Manager Zhu." Sun Dahai said with a smile.
"You can call me Catherine by my English name. I don't feel comfortable calling me Manager Zhu. This time I have finally finished all the details of the future building. The design drawing has been revised three times according to our requirements, and now it is finalized.
The manuscript is in my bag and I will show it to you later."
The Future Tower is tentatively named after a piece of land bought by Future Investment Company in San Francisco's Santa Clara Valley for the construction of an office tower and two annex buildings.
It has been nearly two years since Zhu Lihua joined the company after the Spring Festival in 1944. She has been in the United States for more than half of the time. Not only does she have to review investment projects, she also spends more of her energy conducting various negotiations and consultations around this piece of land.
This piece of land is located in the Santa Clara Valley, close to the core area of Silicon Valley, with a total area of nearly fifty acres, or about three hundred acres.
This land was transferred for the first time, and the seller was the Santa Clara City Government, asking for US$10 million. After half a year of arduous negotiations, Julie finally closed the deal for US$1 million in the second half of last year.
Purchasing the land is just the beginning, and various matters are coming one after another.
Fortunately, Zhu Lihua is a graduate student from Harvard, and after working in the United States for several years, she is not only familiar with the local legal system, but also has her own personal connections, so she can be busy and not messy, and handle all the procedures quickly and properly.
After successfully purchasing the land, Zhu Lihua began to look for a suitable architectural design company to prepare for the design.
After looking at photos and other information, designers from several companies all believe that companies in Silicon Valley should be driven by the pursuit of comfort and freedom. The buildings on this land are best designed to be low-density, low-rise buildings.
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Such a suggestion did not meet the company's expectations and did not satisfy Zhu Lihua. So after seeking the opinions of Sun Dahai and Qiao Hongwei, she did not adopt the designers' suggestions and continued to look for designers.
Finally, through a friend's introduction, she found an architectural design studio in San Francisco not far away. After communication, the two parties reached an agreement on the design idea.
What follows is an agreement signing, on-site testing, and sketches. Then the designer and Zhu Lihua sit down together again to discuss, debate, and debate. After a few rounds, the designer goes back to make his second draft.
The designer came to Zhu Lihua with the second draft and repeated the above steps. However, this time there were not many major problems, it was mainly about considering some details.
Last week, Zhu Lihua finally approved the third draft produced by the studio and reported to Sun Dahai and Qiao Hongwei respectively on the phone.
Sun Dahai's instructions to her were to act cheaply.
Sun Dahai didn't take this place seriously. The building here is different from the future building under construction in Xiangjiang. That side is where the company's headquarters is located, and it is also the facade.
Although here in Silicon Valley, it is said to be the office space for the American branch of Future Holdings, the buildings here are actually purely commercial real estate, mainly for leasing to small businesses or studios.
Therefore, Sun Dahai believes that as long as the buildings here meet the standards, are safe and reliable, and have no problems, it will be fine.
Of course, you can't say this directly to Zhu Lihua. She has worked hard for so long, and there is still hard work without credit! If Sun Dahai said this directly, then he would really be a stick.
Sun Dahai, who refused to be a stick, sat in the activity room after breakfast, flipped through the thick design draft in his hand, and said yes repeatedly.
Zhu Lihua didn't say anything, just sat aside and looked at Sun Dahai. In the end, she covered her mouth and laughed.
Sun Dahai suddenly became angry.
He put the design draft on the table, and then said to Zhu Lihua: "Manager Zhu, oh no, Catherine, to be honest, I can't understand these ghost-like things."
Catherine laughed out loud: "I took it wrong just now. Looking at you, I really thought you could understand it. Anyway, I can't understand it. This is not for us to see, but to be submitted to the professional department for use."
Design drawings for review.”
As she said that, she took out another document bag from her bag, put a small pile of papers in it, and handed it to Sun Dahai.
"This is what we are shown."
Sun Dahai took it over and took a look. The first one was a hand-drawn rendering of a blue glass building. Its facade was not straight, but wavy like ocean waves, which was very avant-garde and beautiful.
There is also some English below to introduce the creative inspiration and related data of the building.
Sun Dahai raised his head suspiciously, looked at Catherine, and complained wildly in his heart: "You picked the wrong one! You just want to see a joke. Seeing how hard you are working, so I ignore you. If you get angry, I'll do it.
Asking for help outside the venue, just one phone call would bring my dad over.
I don’t believe it. He is a top student in the Department of Architecture at Huaqing University and has been engaged in architecture for twenty years. How can he still not be able to understand the design drawings of a civil building?” 11