Miracles of Rare Design
When you step inside a building whose design is so completely different from every other building around, or even any other building you’ve ever seen, do you wonder, just for a moment, if it’s an alien ship?
C’mon, it can’t be just me. Tell me you’ve never walked through the Guggenheim and found yourself looking for the engine room. Obviously neither the Olympic Stadium in Montreal or the Rotating Tower in Dubai were designed for human beings and the Bibiliotheca Alexandrina looks like it was trying to land in Egypt and very nearly made it.
Are there really genius architects and encouraging financiers out there? Or are aliens dropping from the skies into our infrastructure while local governments make the best out of it and get a funkier skyline in the process?
Silly idea, I know. Only I’ve been looking for the bathroom in this place for half an hour now and the room I just walked into has control panels and viewscreens and what would probably be chairs if they were shaped differently and I might be in trouble.
If you don’t hear from me in an hour, send the Cathedral of Basilia after me.
