More libraries that hurt you
Another thing about our fancy new library. The main entrance contains a combination ramp/step that could only have been designed specifically to cause people to trip and break their sculls against the slate flagstones. There is one wide, shallow step that rises out of the middle of the otherwise gently sloping walkway.
It gets you coming and going. If you're walking up, the slope is gentle and the stones blend together. Unless you're looking for it, you catch your foot under and splat! The classic falling up the stairs. If you're coming out, you don't see the ledge until you fall off it. After everyone bitched about it for two weeks, they've now marked the corners very artfully with orange plastic road cones.
posted by shorttina @ 2:07 PM
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3 Comments:
If I had gotten to help design that library, you could move a book and a shelf against a wall would take you to another, hidden room. So fun! I've always wanted one of those.
Yes--the librarian's out, a way to hide from demanding faculty members. I like that idea. The new archives area is super-fancy and has semi-secret doors that blend into the woodwork. I would like a statue whose hand I could pull down and an underground tunnel opens up, preferably leading back to my office on the other side of campus.
The good old "pull my finger" statue is an excellent option.
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