Posted by dorayme on 01/25/08 04:37

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"asdf" <asdf@asdf.com> wrote:

> Do you think that a building designed as a bomb-proof shelter would improve
> it's function by being pleasing to the eye?

Even to ask me such a thing shows it would be hard for us to
discuss this matter - so little are you on my wave length. How
the thing looks is a consequence of its functional design. All
your claims of ugliness are suspect to me <g> I think spanners
are one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen on earth. I
have them on my desk, I twiddle and make like a sword swallower
with them (closest to eating them you see...).

The colour of the paint on a car is about the closest
non-functional, mere morsel to the eye type thing and even then
you have to be careful. In Australia, a well designed car (no
air-conditioning for reasons that should be obvious these days)
would hardly be so if it was not white or highly reflective of
the sun...

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dorayme

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