Saturday, May 6th, 2006:
Help!
What's it for, Helsingborg?
What I think:
Last year, Lund University in Helsingborg, which happens to share a building with my workplace, put an installation in the courtyard. Actually, I'm blaming them because I can't believe that the company I work for would do this. But I'm not sure of who the culprit is, to be honest. Just look at what I see when I come out of work:
Nice, isn't it? But what is its purpose?
I've got a colleague who visits from England on a weekly basis (hi, Barry), and he remarked that the Swedes don't do things by halves. In the UK, they would have just put a few stumps down to hold it up for a few months (to a year), then fixed it when it fell over. Not the Swedes - oh no.
Last year, Lund University in Helsingborg, which happens to share a building with my workplace, put an installation in the courtyard. Actually, I'm blaming them because I can't believe that the company I work for would do this. But I'm not sure of who the culprit is, to be honest. Just look at what I see when I come out of work:
Nice, isn't it? But what is its purpose?I've got a colleague who visits from England on a weekly basis (hi, Barry), and he remarked that the Swedes don't do things by halves. In the UK, they would have just put a few stumps down to hold it up for a few months (to a year), then fixed it when it fell over. Not the Swedes - oh no.
This is deep concrete. This is good quality glass (probably missile-proof). This is solid. In short, this is a "permanent" structure.
So the question must be asked: What is it? And why is it? Why was this thing built?
Hopefully not for smokers. Smokers don't go there; smoking is banned indoors, but there are smoking rooms in some of the offices, and enough shelter for others already. I know; I'm a smoker.
It also can't be a shelter from the rain. Again, there's already shelter, thanks.
What I would really appreciate from you, dear readers, is some input as to what this can be used for. Hopefully, the Swedish government will take on one of your ideas. Because any practical use for this thing is beyond me.
Thank you for your help, and I'll keep you posted.
posted by Mark Base at 12:44 am
26 Comments:
Worst greenhouse ever.
Does it get hot in there during the summer? Perhaps a sauna. Perhaps it could be used as a green house. Put some flowers and a couple beehives in it and you got something useful.
My guess is that it is something that some artsy-fartsy person had in his/her head and finagled someone with cash to put it up. I'm in the wrong business. I should have been a con artist so I too could cash in on stuff like this.
Maybe it's just good for a laugh to see some poor bloke standing in a glass phallic-like structure wondering what the hell he's doing there. But don't go by me...everything looks like a phallic symbol to me lately.
I think you should move your desk out there & work out of it for awhile. Eventually someone will come up & say "this is not your office, it's _____". Then you'll know. Or it could be the new A-Team BYOB Pub, you never know.
tat things looks cute, did u try to go in there?
Is it a natural tanning booth?
Uh Oh, I suspect you are about to get a visit from the world renown
David Blaine who is set to perform another one of his jaw-dropping epic feats of endurance. I only hope the Swedes welcome him with as much verve as Londoners did!
Thank the Lord you found my bong, my memory isn't what it was, don't suppose my denim jacket is in your forecourt too?
It reminds me of the Chill Out structures at Festivals - maybe your workplace is planning a large festival and hence, the glass structure being the 'chill out space' - Spliff anyone?
Maybe somewhere to park your bike? or perhaps as already suggested a greenhouse? :)
All i know is if you live
in a glass house,don't throw
stones.Don't walk around
naked either.
Good thing I'm not a destructive nudist then, eh?
biosphere.
Greenhouse, biosphere or company tanning booth.
I don't know much about art, but I know what I like and that's definitely not it!
it's an ant burner...for giant ants.
I still like Tug's idea. Move in.
Maybe they're gonna put a fountain in there, with a heater so it won't freeze in the winter?
Omni
is this a contest? Will the winner get to be part of the Swedish Government so they can DO something about this?
Has someone mentioned the thingymabob at The Louvre? The more I think about it, the more it looks like its country cousin.
Or an inverted hash-pipe.
Either/or.
I.M. Pei designed the Louvre pyramid. Big name architects do nothing without much fanfare -- it feeds their Frank Lloyd Wright-sized egos.
If this were a Famous and Important building, you'd have heard.
"Swedes don't do things by halves"
true, because they don't have to because they have IKEA. Just snap it together and boom, there is it.
;)
Not sure what that is.....looks like an igloo so maybe it is to remind you that winter is right around the corner...?
I like Tugs idea too! I double dare you to do it, and take a picture!
If there was a power source there, I'd consider it.
batteries my friend. The Energizer Bunny IS your bud.
See if you can sneak one folding chair and a small patio table into it. - Better yet a futon. That would make the powers that be wonder whats going on in there...
Blog! Oh yeah, bet basketball I knew there was something I was supposed to do when I got back. Oh dear, It's now been over a month since my last entry. My apologies. sportsbook I've also been tagged to do yet another one these "things about myself" things. I was tagged by Aaron Cook. I've known Aaron, in the modern march madness never-met-but-paths-seemed-to-have-crossed-over-the-Internet-a-few-times kind of way, for about four years or so. Do check his list of "8 Random Facts". Here's a guy whose tongue detects things in foods that the average tongue cannot. Blessing or curse? You decide.
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