How are really large buildings (e.g. airports, skyscrapers, etc.) designed from an architectural standpoint? Who is in charge of designing what floors/lobbies/etc.?

Question

How does an architectural firm split the work?

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Answer 1

They put a bunch of architects and engineers in the room. The architects went to school to design things while the engineers went to school to build things. The engineers don’t know which room to make wide and open vs closed up with lots of walls and the architects don’t know how to make the building stay standing. The architects will give the engineers a design for the building, the engineers will do the math and figure out if they can make it work and if they can then hooray now they take it to a financial planner and get the money to hire builders and buy materials. If they can’t make it work they tell the architects to redesign the bad parts and then the process starts all over