h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1129225.ece?service=print


_not_ funny!











(link provided by Ottox)

I am... amazed. That's just astonishingly poor thinking.

Really and seriously stupid, sunny. I'm amazed the building design was ever approved.


az

Yes - reminded me of the big library in Paris: the books are kept in the glass towers, which means they get lots of sun - not good for them at all. The offices on the other hand are in the basement where the people get no sun at all - and a _lot_ of other bad mistakes. Monsieur Perrault _did_ know it was supposed to become a library. Sigh.

http://library.fullerton.edu/Patrons/patrons_new_library_paris.htm

"Originally, readers were to occupy the towers and books would be housed underground. But encroaching moisture stains suggested that the waters of the Seine were penetrating the basement, and it would be folly to imperil the whole legacy of French culture with damp, rot, or flood. So the towers were re-configured for books, and the basement for people. But books are also damaged by constant exposure to sunlight, so thousands of wood shutters were fabricated and installed, and of course this changed the intended appearance of the towers."

*shakes head in disbelief*