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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 28, 2020 18:01:18 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jan 28, 2020 22:54:11 GMT
I guess I'm old fashion when it comes to libraries (and book stores), I like a nice cozy library, not an open concept. ( I also dislike open concept homes were you can see the whole house at once, I'm a messy housekeeper so I like rooms with doors.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2020 2:15:50 GMT
What an ugly monstrosity of a building.
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Post by Bargle on Jan 30, 2020 13:10:40 GMT
I guess I'm old fashion when it comes to libraries (and book stores), I like a nice cozy library, not an open concept. ( I also dislike open concept homes were you can see the whole house at once, I'm a messy housekeeper so I like rooms with doors.) Goes for me as well.
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Post by Zos on Jan 30, 2020 16:20:16 GMT
Libraries have become "hubs" and café type places, I demand a return to foreboding stately institutes with a frumpy bespectacled Librarian hissing "shhhhhhhhh" every 2 minutes.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jan 30, 2020 17:06:15 GMT
Libraries have become "hubs" and café type places, I demand a return to foreboding stately institutes with a frumpy bespectacled Librarian hissing "shhhhhhhhh" every 2 minutes. My local library is like a day care center, I stopped going because it was always full of toddlers running around and screaming while their mothers sat together to gossip. Its a small local library.
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Post by Zos on Jan 30, 2020 18:10:23 GMT
Libraries have become "hubs" and café type places, I demand a return to foreboding stately institutes with a frumpy bespectacled Librarian hissing "shhhhhhhhh" every 2 minutes. My local library is like a day care center, I stopped going because it was always full of toddlers running around and screaming while their mothers sat together to gossip. Its a small local library. I know, it drives me crazy.
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Post by amyghost on Jan 30, 2020 18:14:58 GMT
I'd hope that the architects would include some 'private space' in this thing, but not hopeful. The idea of promoting forced gregariousness seems becoming an ongoing trend in building public spaces, as well as the somewhat paranoiac fear that no public space should have any areas not immediately accessible to view, because lord knows, we all know some maniac or pervert could be hiding there to do us in. I prefer old buildings with shadowy nooks, crannies, alcoves and odd spaces just waiting to be discovered (just like some older libraries I know) but I don't think modern-day builders of these types of spaces are going to go for that in our brave new world.
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Post by amyghost on Jan 30, 2020 18:19:54 GMT
Libraries have become "hubs" and café type places, I demand a return to foreboding stately institutes with a frumpy bespectacled Librarian hissing "shhhhhhhhh" every 2 minutes. My local library is like a day care center, I stopped going because it was always full of toddlers running around and screaming while their mothers sat together to gossip. Its a small local library. God forbid the notion of child-free zones or hours in public institutions anymore. Much as I love our local museum, I've had more than one major exhibit somewhat spoiled by toddlers running around screaming, falling, shrieking, etc. while the adults are trying to view the works. And no one says a word to mum or dad to quiet the brats or take them outside, or even comes up with a common-sense policy of having special 'child-free' and 'family-friendly' hours. No doubt some over-entitled parental unit would go into meltdown over being told their spawn didn't have the right to the run of the place at any and all times.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Jan 30, 2020 18:46:55 GMT
My local library is like a day care center, I stopped going because it was always full of toddlers running around and screaming while their mothers sat together to gossip. Its a small local library. God forbid the notion of child-free zones or hours in public institutions anymore. Much as I love our local museum, I've had more than one major exhibit somewhat spoiled by toddlers running around screaming, falling, shrieking, etc. while the adults are trying to view the works. And no one says a word to mum or dad to quiet the brats or take them outside, or even comes up with a common-sense policy of having special 'child-free' and 'family-friendly' hours. No doubt some over-entitled parental unit would go into meltdown over being told their spawn didn't have the right to the run of the place at any and all times. If I behaved that way as a child, I would have been spanked right then and there, I always behaved in public because I knew if I didn't, my bottom would sting. I guess spanking is no longer allowed (a spanking is just a few swats on the bottom and not a beating, I don't believe in beating children).
More than once in the news there have been incidents where an object of art has been destroyed or severely damaged by a child.
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Post by amyghost on Jan 30, 2020 18:57:36 GMT
God forbid the notion of child-free zones or hours in public institutions anymore. Much as I love our local museum, I've had more than one major exhibit somewhat spoiled by toddlers running around screaming, falling, shrieking, etc. while the adults are trying to view the works. And no one says a word to mum or dad to quiet the brats or take them outside, or even comes up with a common-sense policy of having special 'child-free' and 'family-friendly' hours. No doubt some over-entitled parental unit would go into meltdown over being told their spawn didn't have the right to the run of the place at any and all times. If I behaved that way as a child, I would have been spanked right then and there, I always behaved in public because I knew if I didn't, my bottom would sting. I guess spanking is no longer allowed (a spanking is just a few swats on the bottom and not a beating, I don't believe in beating children).
More than once in the news there have been incidents where an object of art has been destroyed or severely damaged by a child.
Ditto on that--no way would my parents have permitted a prolonged public act-out in a place like that; and I suspect the time is not far off when some kiddy in tantrum mode is going to take out an artwork at one of these exhibits. Be interesting to see how the museum administrators cope with that scenario whenever (I don't think there's any 'if' about it) this comes to pass.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 31, 2020 0:43:29 GMT
"...It will be interesting to see how it copes come exam time; 7,000 students study at this campus and the building has a capacity of 2,500."
Challenge accepted.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 1, 2020 2:16:25 GMT
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Post by ant-mac on Feb 1, 2020 6:26:26 GMT
I wouldn't call that romantic looking, but I've seen worse... This looks fucking horrendous. 
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Post by theravenking on Feb 1, 2020 15:51:05 GMT
I don't like it, and I find it especially disheartening that the architects would receive a gold medal for something that could've been designed by a 10 year old child (although chances are that the 10 year old would've been more creative.)
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Post by ant-mac on Feb 1, 2020 19:51:04 GMT
I like it, but I wouldn't call it romantic looking and I'm not sure I'd install a library in it, but as far as buildings go, I - mostly - like its external appearance.
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