Textiles and Bicycles

It’s the Kevin Bacon effect…pretty face with a botched nosejob.
Why would someone do this? Did this owner or architect just give up on life? “Eh, fuck it.”

I believe this is this Verizon building in Tribeca (I was staying with a friend who lives in a nearby high rise). It seems to be a prison for bad cables, computers, and vitamin-D deficient creatures one can only imagine lurking inside.  Just to clarify, this building has not 1 window on the whole thing.  Not 1.

I don’t want to leave you completely disillusioned with architects, as is the permeating feeling in my household (and entire profession, possibly), so here’s a lovely house I always pass on my bike ride home from work:

It looks this nice everyday…with the shiny, matching Vespa perfectly placed. Maybe I’m playing into their little I-want-attention game. I guess that’s ok.