[LogicUpgrade]

Bad analogy, architecture schematics are subject to copyright and you can't just take them and use them, either.

[spacemanmatt]

People can and do steal architectural patterns all the time for reuse in their own structures. Are your getting it wrong on purpose?

[mattkrause]

Not wholesale, anyway.

This decision suggests you could include say, the negative of the neighboring building’s facade so that the two “interoperate” in a sensible way.