[1rudeboy]

How hard can it be to pirate the design of a building? Client says, "make it look like this one." Architect says, "ok."

Even if the architect is clueless, he can visit the building already constructed.

[married21]

There is a church in Mexico which I visited years ago that has the front facade of a famous church in Europe. The architect used a postcard as his inspiration. The rest of the building is a regular Mexican church. The architect had no idea what the rest of the famous church looked like, so he just went with what he knew. I think this was in San Miguel de Allende.