pedestrian and egg fry

[Brigid]

ok this article amused me to great lenghts. I live in Red Hook, NY, home of Bard College, they put in a performing arts center a couple of years ago and the designer was Frank Gehry. And this was designed by the same guy.

Frank Gehry fries pedestrians & eggs with solar death ray
Sunlight reflected from the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles has "roasted the sidewalk to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to melt plastic and cause serious sunburn to people standing on the street". The fix: dull the building's highly reflective surface. Or -- meep-meep! Paging mister Christo! Need some orange curtains over here.

For the Full Story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-030105disney_lat,0,5171623.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Cyranno DeBoberac]

That was a great article!

And it even gave us a new contestant in the "most in need of being hit upside the head with a clue-by-four" contest:

Others consider the changes unnecessary. "Let them get shades," said Charlotte Epstein, who was visiting the concert hall from New Jersey. "It think it's very interesting. It's very different. I would leave it the way it is."

What a maroon! :)