Library of the Damned
By The Chronicle sponsored a contest recently in which readers suggested designs for the new $500 million library to be built at Integritude U.
We thought that Chronicle readers would have their own ideas about how that building should be designed, and we invited people to send in designs on the backs of envelopes. About 120 people sent in sketches that were good, bad, serious, humorous, abstract, or really angry. Their designs took the form of toilets, bunkers, crosses, and W’s, some crudely drawn and some very elegant.
The finalists are pretty great, but I think this one was my favorite:
For the curious, the notations are as follows:
1. The WMD Stockpile of Manufactured Evidence Library
2. The “Big Oil” Hall
3. The Telecommunications “Listening” Lounge
4. The “We Do Not Torture” Torture Viewing Theater.
I can’t draw, but here’s my belated contribution:
