From: "robert couturier" AMMI > To: "Jeffrey Epstein" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Problems questions and delays... Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:06:24 +0000 Importance: Normal OK... I think my head is going to split open Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Date: Wed 12 Ma 2010 01:33:31 -0400 To: Subject: Re: Problems questions and delays... lets talk today... i very much appreciate candor and honesty, i hope you are not getting this flu On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:07 AM, <IMMI > wrote: Dear Jeffrey, I'm writing to you because I'm concerned about how the project is going, and I'm afraid that if things continue as they are now, neither of us will be happy--either with the process or with the final result. So I'm sending you some thoughts which, although they may sound blunt, will at least, I hope, have the virtue of being honest. Whether we part ways or continue to work together, I think it's important that I be frank with you so that we both know what the issues are before we proceed any further. Little Saint James is, of course, a wonderful property, but my fear is that the way we are currently approaching it is highly inefficient at best, and is, at worst, setting us both up for disappointment if not downright disaster. As I see it, the principal causes of this inefficiency are as follows: (1) Four other architects have preceded me on Little Saint James--in just the past two years, no less--with the result that there is very little unifying thought behind the project: the parts that should work together do not, in fact, do so and buildings have been constructed in what seems to be an altogether random fashion, with no thought as to how they should cohere into a whole. This ad-hoc approach to the construction not only poses EFTA00759068