Slog - Comments on Kinderstad http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/kinderstad At the top of this hospital in Amsterdam is a kinderstad, a “children’s town,” a "place where children between 4 and 18 years old being treated in the medical centre can meet with family and relax outside of the hospital environment." For reasons that I will not explore in this post, the high location of the glass and titanium structure, and its sad function, has echoes with this passage from Eliot's "Burnt Norton": The surface glittered out of heart of light, And they were behind us, reflected in the pool. Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 28 May 2008 11:45:24 -0800 Wed, 28 May 2008 19:58:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist I hope that none of these children hidden in the leaves have big blonde "brothers" that secretly want to kill them. And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

]]> Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/kinderstad#c1033982 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/kinderstad#c1033982 Architecture Wed, 28 May 2008 14:21:13 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster C_M_I_A_L_B,

Why do you hate Architecture so much?

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/kinderstad#c1034046 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/kinderstad#c1034046 Architecture Wed, 28 May 2008 15:07:29 -0800 Comment by CP Probably just the angle this photo was taken from, but it reminds me of a flak tower. Say, Charles, you're a fan of concrete, right? How 'bout them flak towers?

]]> CP http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/kinderstad#c1034265 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/kinderstad#c1034265 Architecture Wed, 28 May 2008 19:58:05 -0800