Saturday, January 5, 2008

Architectural woes

A brand-new building for the School of Physical Sciences is coming up in the campus. We can see the sprawling building (for some reason vertical expansion is anathema to the administration/architect). It looks beautiful if one excludes the fact that many trees were chopped off and the Arvali mountains were flattened for this building to come up.
"So when are you folks moving?" I asked the current Dean of the school.
"When the entrance is constructed," she replied.
It turns out that the architect forgot to put in the entrance in the design. Oops!
So the administration has a brilliant solution to the problem of missing entrance. They have asked it to be put for Phase II construction. Now, the problem is how can one have Phase II construction when one cannot even enter the Phase I construction.
But for all those of you who revile the CPWD fellows, remember that they are not alone for the shoddy construction.
(Incidentally, the architect long time back won a prize for designing the JNU campus)

2 comments:

thushar said...

not specific to this post, but you have the gift of the flow..effortless read; a great talent to have

Rohini Muthuswami said...

Thanks Thushar.