Comments on Buddy Architecture

Normally I love the old Carnegie library style -- the Green Lake and University branches are lovely -- but the old Douglass-Truth building is unlovely. I don't know why. But I wouldn't have missed it.

What might have been more interesting is to have had the new building almost completely engulf the old, with just one bit peeping out. As it is, that stairwell is atrocious, no matter how tall the ceiling is. It's also not very ADA-compliant; I know it's possible to send the disabled around the side or down the elevator but it's much more elegant to design a solution that works for them naturally, not "around" them.