10/12/2026
How do you project-manage something like the Louvre?
The stone. The drawings. The deliveries. The sequencing. The craftsmanship repeated across an extraordinary scale.
Standing in the courtyard, James couldn’t stop thinking about the people who coordinated it all—without the communication, machinery, and technology we rely on today.
“The scale of thinking just blows my mind.”
When you spend your life building, you see more than the finished architecture. You start imagining everything it took to get there.
Through a Builder’s Eyes | James Mansfield, founder of West Village General Contracting.
What building has made you stop and wonder, “How did they actually build this?”
