"Ray E. Harrell" wrote:
[snip]
> If it is a Mies building then it is in the attention to details that will
> reveal it. From what you say I would be surprised if it was anymore than a
> visual copy. Mies went to the men's room also.
[snip]
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: January 6, 2001 5:08 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: 6 feet by 6 feet
> >
> > The company I work for recently
> > moved into bigger quarters.
> >
> > The new space is in
> > a big skyscraper office building -- I haven't
> > yet determined if it's a Mies or a bad imitation of
> > a Mies building.
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This mens room in my company's new office is remarkably depressing.
(No windows.) Grey tile on the
walls, and a combination of grey and pink tile on the floor.
Too low lighting level. The toilets against
one wall, urinals against a second wall, wash basins against
the third. And the fourth is blank except for the
entry, which is thru an 8 foot or so long narrow tunnel -- I mean
corridor --, inside
the door to the hall. The middle of this approximately
square (30 foot by 30 foot???) room is empty
space with that grey and pink tile on the floor and the dim lighting
that seems almost palpable. Oh, yes, there are mirrors
over the wash basins, so you can see the big empty
space behind you while washing your hands.
I recall a
German phrase which I will not be able to spell right:
Dunkel ist der Leben, ist der Tod
(Life is dark and so too is death.)
20 years ago, an admissions officer at Harvard's
School of Architecture told me, when I asked about my
prospects for being admitted: "When we admit people like you,
they tend to leave after a year without us having to
ask them to." And Prof. Martin Gehner, Director of
admissions at my undergrad "Alma Mater", Yale's architecture school:
"You do not exhibit three-dimensional drawing skill."
+\brad mccormick, neither PhD nor MArch
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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