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Parking lots designed by artists

Have you ever gone somewhere only to find that the parking area, while "pretty" as such things go, is so artsy-fartsy that you can hardly get in or out of the damned thing? My wife and I call them "parking lots designed by artists." They typically feature sweeping curves and trees, but also traffic choke points where people get bunched up to the point where the think they're thinking about choking is the freaking idiot who designed it. Or maybe that's just me...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object.cgi?paper=chronicle&file=MN109414.DTL&directory=/c/a/2003/02/05&type=columnists&object=/chronicle/pictures/2003/02/05/mn_wtc05.jpg


Anyway, when I look at the poorly named THINK design, I can't wonder what the hell they were thinking. Is this supposed to be an office building? If so, where are the floors where actual people can walk and put desks and do actual work? Whatever happened to the idea of "form follows function?"

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