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Don't see many of these any more.
When did things stop being designed to work well and be aesthetically pleasing and become so... functional?
Meetings today at work... the jist of it is, 2 years down the line we will be moving out of the spectacular town hall building I have been blipping on about for the past 3 weeks and relocating to a new 'developement' which supports a more cost effective, concrete and no doubt ugly 'workspace'.
Sigh.