cowperthwait | lies, evasion, spin, circumspection and cleverly veiled hype

Oh, you people have got to be kidding me:


our very own swimming-pool light

Roughly 3.5 million volumes will be stored on racks in a climate-controlled underground facility that digs down about 50 feet. The glass dome above it will reach 36 feet high, supported on a curving grid of steel. Ceramic patterns on the glass will block the sun, reducing heat gain.

“At least that’s what the engineers tell me,” Jahn said Friday, when I asked if the dome would turn into a sauna, as the Thompson Center infamously did....

—Jahn's library dome at the U. of C.: Elegant minimalism or self-indulgent object?, Chicago Tribune

mmn, cake

I thought it was totally brilliant at the time.