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	<title>Comments on: Library dreams from Robb Pitts</title>
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		<title>By: Joeventures</title>
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		<description>Some of those libraries are really nice -- NYPL, right there with Bryant Park, is an awesome hangout place. But I would say half of those libraries inspire me to say that library design has a long way to go.

We could always replace a depressing modernist cinder block with another depressing modernist cinder block.

Or.. how about a post-modern glass-and-steel blob? Make sure to put a giant plaza out front that looks pretty, but no one will use.

Or.. maybe just a building that pretends to be sculpture. It could be built to represent the intransigence of humanity, irrespectful of urban dynamic fluidity... Whatever it represents, it doesn&#039;t have to make sense. It just has to be preserved. In other words, the Buckhead library could be replaced with itself.

Let&#039;s get a panel of architects who know better than the rest of us to decide. Maybe they could come up with something more outlandish than whatever big block of cheese is going to replace the World Trade Center in NYC. It would be quite a coup.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some of those libraries are really nice &#8212; NYPL, right there with Bryant Park, is an awesome hangout place. But I would say half of those libraries inspire me to say that library design has a long way to go.</p>
<p>We could always replace a depressing modernist cinder block with another depressing modernist cinder block.</p>
<p>Or.. how about a post-modern glass-and-steel blob? Make sure to put a giant plaza out front that looks pretty, but no one will use.</p>
<p>Or.. maybe just a building that pretends to be sculpture. It could be built to represent the intransigence of humanity, irrespectful of urban dynamic fluidity&#8230; Whatever it represents, it doesn&#8217;t have to make sense. It just has to be preserved. In other words, the Buckhead library could be replaced with itself.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s get a panel of architects who know better than the rest of us to decide. Maybe they could come up with something more outlandish than whatever big block of cheese is going to replace the World Trade Center in NYC. It would be quite a coup.</p>
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