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OK, someone has to say it: Have you seen the new library building? WTF!?!?! Was the construction crew fucking drunk when they built the top floor, or is the architect a sexually frustrated Rubix cube addict? Clearly, some creative designs lack common sense. -Not Getting It
This article appears in Jun 19-25, 2014.
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I thought the windows were dirty, then realized they had words written all over them… (why obscure the view?)
They may have written on the windows so other visitors to the site during construction realized that there were windows there and didn’t try delivering a boom truck delivery though one of the windows. New windows can be so clear that it’s sometimes difficult to tell they are there.
…and the library is supposed to look like a stack of books. It’s a daring architectural design that is seems strange and new to Halifax because it’s not a simple box with windows in it.
I bet you’re affiliated with the view from the hill posse or the heritage trust? Birkenstocks cinching a little tight this morning?
We need more modern and tall buildings, fuck the heritage, by European standards the history of Halifax is a joke, they have library books out on loan longer than this shite.
Yes, let’s please just restore some more of our outdated buildings that look like shit and are too old to be retro-fitted with A/C.
You can’t have a world class city without some crappy design that you have to like lest you be labelled a nay-sayer/defeastist.
I KNOW RIGHT OP. WHY DIDN’T THEY BUILD IT IN A PERFECT CUBE JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER FUCKING BUILDING.
Unimaginative cunt.
No, the words on the window are here for decorative reasons. Have a look.
anything rather than a boring cube or rectangle. I LOVE Vancouver’s colosseum . I’d be willing top through a few Christians off the upper ramparts.
new library looks good. but how about more spiral shaped buildings. or sails. prows. stuff like that