Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] library photos?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mark Rages wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:38:16PM -0500, Adam Procter wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mike Miller wrote:
> > 
> > > I didn't have time to follow the whole earlier thread, but I would be
> > > interested in seeing photos of the library.  Are any available?
> > 
> > Looks like www.dbrl.org has one or two dinky little photos up.  If I had a
> > digicam I'd take some more, but alas... maybe for Christmas.  ;-)
> 
> http://www.dbrl.org/newcpl/gallery/index.html

Aren't those all the "construction in progress" ones?  Anyway, I suspect 
I'll be back for a bit on Thursday, so I'll take some and throw them up on 
my website.
 
> > To me the most egregious thing about it is the "salt shaker" at the east
> > end of the building.  In the original artist's renditions it looked like
> > it was going to be all cool and crystalline and reflective.  In real life
> > it just looks like they ran out of glass bricks and the contractor said,
> > "Welp, just prop 'em up 'gainst the building and wrap the whole thing up
> > in packing tape."

Again, it looks better lit up.  And it is also much cooler from the 
inside.  Reflective was, alas, unlikely since most of the tower is on the 
north side of the building.

jking


--
To unsubscribe, go to http://mlug.missouri.edu/members/edit.php

Archives are available at http://mlug.missouri.edu/list-archives/