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The new downtown Baton Rouge library is nearing completion after massive delays
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:39 am
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:39 am
All of that time wasted on addressing structural failures and ensuring the building doesn't immediately collapse wasted......on a pretty ugly building.
On the bright side - it's much more attractive that this adjacent brutalist structure that looks like it came straight from a 1980's version of Texas A&M's campus.
Anyone know if the glass facade on the new library is riot-proof?
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The Advocate
The East Baton Rouge Parish Library shared photos to social media on Wednesday giving the public a "first look" at the nearly completed River Center Library. Its opening has been stalled not once, not twice, but three times.
The $19 million project was originally slated for completion in 2018, but its opening was halted for nearly a year after an alleged design flaw caused support beams on the building’s cantilever to fail.
A 2019 cyberattack that crippled statewide agencies further delayed the library's debut. Officials then slated its new opening date to March 2020.
Then, the coronavirus pandemic hit—forcing thousands of businesses to close their doors for public health safety.
On the bright side - it's much more attractive that this adjacent brutalist structure that looks like it came straight from a 1980's version of Texas A&M's campus.
Anyone know if the glass facade on the new library is riot-proof?
This post was edited on 6/18/20 at 9:45 am
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Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:42 am to goofball
Finally, just in time for summer. Those bums need a place to cool down and take a shite.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:42 am to goofball
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on a pretty ugly building.
Agree to disagree
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:43 am to facher08
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Agree to disagree
It looks like a giant whistle.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:44 am to goofball
Who still uses a library?
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:44 am to goofball
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It looks like a giant whistle.
Whistle
Like dog whistle
Building is racist. Take it down now.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:44 am to goofball
Finally, the hobos now have a place to watch porn.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:46 am to goofball
Will refreshments be served at the ribbon cutting? Asking for Gravy.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:46 am to goofball
At least it won’t be looted.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:46 am to goofball
What a terrible business like design. Should have gotten a gothic look . Like English library
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:48 am to TigerNlc
And take a dump.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:48 am to goofball
Just in time for the book burnings.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:49 am to Boo Krewe
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What a terrible business like design. Should have gotten a gothic look . Like English library
This is what happens when you combine a shite load of cash, a second rate architect unconstrained by practicality, a valuable piece of real estate, and a reduced purpose in society.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:49 am to goofball
Did the Hard Rock Cafe contractors build that?
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:52 am to wickowick
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Who still uses a library?
I do, but to your point, investing that much money into a big, nice, new library in 2020 is pretty fricking stupid.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:53 am to goofball
Looks a lot like the new one they just built here in Wichita
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:56 am to GREENHEAD22
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Just in time for the book burnings.
It's ok. They have insurance.
Posted on 6/18/20 at 9:58 am to goofball
It’s like the architect sat down and tried to think of a way to fit as many glass windows as possible.
What breaks them first, protestors or a hurricane?
What breaks them first, protestors or a hurricane?
Posted on 6/18/20 at 10:16 am to goofball
Anyone that pushed for that Colossal waste of money should be should be Key Hauled up and down the Mississippi.
Oh well at the least the jurors will have nice new digs to hang around in. Gonna need a hell of a lot more jurors after tort reform passes...
Oh well at the least the jurors will have nice new digs to hang around in. Gonna need a hell of a lot more jurors after tort reform passes...
Posted on 6/18/20 at 10:17 am to TigerGman
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Key Hauled up and down the Mississippi.
Might want to check your spelling, and probably location on this punishment technique.
(More effective in barnacle rich environments.)
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