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[calimac]

Worse than the East Lansing Mythcon bathrooms. Another trend to deplore, from people who apparently wish us to believe they think it's actually a good idea and not a form of psychological torture.

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[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Agreed. One wonders what sorts of lives these architects live. Mind you, I've often thought that hotel architects never themselves actually stay in any of the rooms they design, or else they'd realize how many mistakes they'd made.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have made his ceilings high enough for Frank Lloyd Wright. Anybody taller, like for instance you, or even some of Wright's own students, was out of luck. Even I brushed against some of the ceilings at Fallingwater. At least the building was beautiful; many architects can't manage even that.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

One word: yuck!

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

My one word is pee-yew!

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

My reaction too, but then I realized that the toilet is absent from all of the photos. Maybe it's only the 'bath' part of the room that they're making public and there's still a shred of privacy for other bodily functions.

My other thought is that these are apartments for people who live alone and never have guests!

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

And who never drip any water on the floor.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I have an admiration for Erno Goldfinger as an architect is that he insisted on living for a few months in the buildings he designed to be lived in!

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

That doesn't help much if what you're willing to live in is a high-rise apartment building that looks as if Le Corbusier had been hired to design a parking garage.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Although it's odd that the Goldfinger high rises in London (Victoria/Pimlico area) which the council decided to sell off could have been sold on the private sector ten times over and are in high demand when they do come on the market. Council tenants begged to be allowed to stay and that's something you don't often hear about high rises!

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I presume he at least had ordinary bathrooms and toilets.

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

We are never ever staying in a place like that!

[jane-dennis.livejournal.com]

Architects are space aliens. (I knew that even before Daniel Pinkwater spread the word.) Hotel designers are from a much weirder universe entirely.

Otoh, as long as the toilets are still private, and there are curtains on those,window walls (mostly seems to be the case), I'm not that weirded out by a tub in a hotel room. At a con in Banff in the v. early '90s, one of the GoH's threw a party in his "suite" which featured a whirlpool - basically a tub smack in the middle of a very large room. The thing looked awfully out of place.

I do draw the line at a completely open shower, though. Makes my teeth chatter just thinking about how cold that would be.

[danceswithwaves.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't you drip water everywhere? Especially the pictures of tubs right next to carpeting -- I'd feel rather bad for the carpet over time. And as someone else said -- an open air shower would be freezing! Also, as they commented in the article, what about couples with different sleep hours who try not to wake the other person up? Sounds awful in an open air bathroom. (Also, no open air toilets please. Seriously. Some things you shouldn't share.) And that's definitely not an all-the-family or roommate style room.

However, I could see it as a fun/funny romantic getaway type of thing, with glass walled showers and giant bathtubs right in the bedroom area. But I think the novelty of that is what makes it more exciting, because a giant tub in the bathroom is fun anyway, almost regardless of where you put it.