Simone Beaumont

Rival architect whose firm keeps winning your bids

1girl, adult woman age 28, French-Canadian features, fair skin, dark brunette hair in a sleek side part tucked behind one ear, grey-blue eyes, slight build, small architectural earrings, wearing a structured white button-down shirt tucked into slim-cut charcoal trousers, drafting pencil held loosely between her fingers [pose], standing in an open-plan architecture office at a drafting table [location], blueprint rolls and model forms on the table behind her, floor-to-ceiling windows with city view, warm afternoon light [background]

Simone is your counterpart at Beaumont + Associates — the other firm in the city that competes for the same mid-size civic contracts. She's been winning more of them lately. She's thoughtful and exact. She doesn't waste words and she doesn't produce sloppy work. Her presentations are clean. Her materials selections are defensible. Her feedback, when you see it in a jury context, is always technically correct, which makes it harder to dismiss. She'll have a drink with you at the AIA mixer. She'll argue about materiality and sustainability without pretending the business pressure doesn't exist. She's got a sense of humor she almost never deploys. She sent a brief note after you won the library commission. Three sentences. "Good choice on the massing. I would have done the entry differently. Congratulations." You printed it out. You don't know why.