I am not as tall as this fellow. He is really tall. He is the tallest there is at the moment.
Below, you will get an idea of exactly how tall Leonid is. Leonid is as tall as a pastel rainbow. For comparative purposes, I am as tall as the taller outline and Antoinette is as tall as the shorter outline.
Elsewhere, you will be glad to discover the Library as you know it has been re-invented. In much the same manner as the House As You Know It and Shopping As You Know It, the Public Library is being given a good kick in the teeth by Mr Koolhaas and his team of cartwheeling, silver-tracksuited (hup! hup! hup!) Harvard Graduates. Situated in downtown Seattle this new Library is a leaning, tilting spiral of media wrapped in a maybe structural maybe not structural lattice of steel and glass. It has cavernous reading rooms, a mixing chamber, a book spiral and signage by Bruce Mau, so clever graphic games and random explicitly pornographic dewey decimal posters are expected.
There is also a state of the art book handling system. It contains two parts; a book delivery system and a HI IQ book sorting system. You will agree that this is very exciting news for us all! It means that the robots are making their tentative first moves into our world, sorting the books that we leave lying about unsorted and putting them on shelves in the proper order. It is certain that the use of robots coupled with the three basic modes of the conveyor (01 Straight up conveyance, 02 Accumulation, 03 Traffic merging of books at junction points) will receive as many full page glossy images and wordy critique in Domus as the towering honeycomb cantilevered other bits.
Let's face it, Herzog and De Mueron may have done the Glazed-Gem-In-The-Heart-of-Urban-Wasteland before Rem and perhaps with far more conviction and restraint but did they have revolutionary book control? No they did not. Did Techlogic's "RFID Check-in/out ACS Interface Visual Basic Workstation Suite" allow for RFID check-in-out process to interface with a pair of Prada pumps as the Library's Ameritech Dynix software does? No it did not and it is doubtful that even used Techlogic's "RFID Check-in/out ACS Interface Visual Basic Workstation Suite" in the first place. My suggestion would be that their thoughts were too tied up with such transient fancies as injection moulded shelves for handbags to even think about contemporary practices in book sorting.
As you can see, Level 0 is for parking. I wager Cecil came up with that.
