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(Some Guy)   That's no moon... it's a library   (englishrussia.com ) divider line
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2007-08-25 06:52:30 PM  
"Some say it looks like a diamond. We say it looks like the Death Star.
the most nice view of it is at night when its lightning is on


Might have to go check this out.
 
2007-08-25 08:57:00 PM  
thats damn ugly!
 
2007-08-25 08:59:16 PM  
What the hell..
 
2007-08-25 09:00:21 PM  
Nice headline, subby.
 
2007-08-25 09:01:15 PM  
Nothing says 'library' like a funky glass-and-steel polyhedron with a flashing light show.
 
2007-08-25 09:01:19 PM  
imgs.xkcd.com
 
2007-08-25 09:01:42 PM  
That's no moon, it's a giant LiteBrite.
 
2007-08-25 09:01:54 PM  
Does it come with Tetris loaded?
 
2007-08-25 09:02:53 PM  
Snivelly: That's no moon, it's a giant LiteBrite.

Good thing it's not in Boston.
 
2007-08-25 09:03:44 PM  
That's a street light.
 
2007-08-25 09:03:54 PM  
Cue the "It isn't like the deathstar because _____" comments.
 
2007-08-25 09:05:04 PM  
This building was not so long ago erected in Minsk by a personal order of Belarus president Mr. Lukashenko. Locals joke: "Lukashenko had just learned to read and decided to build a library dedicated to this new ability he acquired."

I see that "our president can't read" jokes aren't restricted to the US. :D
 
2007-08-25 09:05:15 PM  
Snivelly: That's no moon, it's a giant LiteBrite.

yes, it DOES look like a litebrite. still kinda cool tho.
 
2007-08-25 09:05:19 PM  
That's no Death Star shaped building, this is a Death Star shaped buidling

img208.imageshack.us
 
2007-08-25 09:08:32 PM  
The LiteBrite Death Star
 
2007-08-25 09:08:34 PM  
The night photo of that place reminds me of a Daft Punk video.
www.saborizante.com
approves
 
2007-08-25 09:09:22 PM  
That's no moon virus...it's a library
 
2007-08-25 09:09:58 PM  
Oh the above, or below depending on how you view your comments, is the proposed Ras al Khaimah Convention and Exhibition Center in Dubai. Designed by Rem Koolhaas

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2007-08-25 09:10:18 PM  
The lights make me want to go back to Vegas.
 
2007-08-25 09:11:34 PM  
WilliamLeeTwitch: The night photo of that place reminds me of a Daft Punk video.

I can see it appearing in a Daft Punk video, especially if it's directed by Michel Gondry.
 
2007-08-25 09:11:35 PM  
Daytime: farking ugerly
Nighttime: could be interesting


I'm glad they've progressed past Stalinist modern (like US housing projects, or 1950s era US college dormitories) in the former Soviet bloc.


And I'm sorry teachers had to sacrifice (as usual), but I'd rather see a bold library than a publicly financed downtown ballpark!
 
2007-08-25 09:11:40 PM  
I love the music in the video. it sounds like a cross between Napoleon Dynamite and Austin Powers.
 
2007-08-25 09:13:36 PM  
Get yourself a tab, a chair, sit and watch the whole night go by.
 
2007-08-25 09:17:08 PM  
This is where Russian architecture is going. Sad. Architecture is generally either a response to the previous style or an evolution of the previous style. In Russia, it's something much more confusing.
 
2007-08-25 09:17:17 PM  
img174.imageshack.us
 
2007-08-25 09:18:05 PM  
my belarussian girlfriend is getting a kick out of these replies
 
2007-08-25 09:19:05 PM  
Charles Lee: Get yourself a tab, a chair, sit and watch the whole night go by.

Tab is hard enough to find here in the 'states, but Russia? I'd consider myself lucky to find a case of Coca-Cola that wasn't some horrible local impostor.

/ducks
 
2007-08-25 09:19:46 PM  
That's going to be a very popular movie location.
 
2007-08-25 09:20:47 PM  
My wife, a librarian, thinks it's tacky.

/yes, she wears cardigans
 
2007-08-25 09:23:12 PM  
I make a saving throw.
 
2007-08-25 09:25:08 PM  
Sheesh. How third-worldy.
 
2007-08-25 09:27:00 PM  
amishrakefight.org
 
2007-08-25 09:37:04 PM  
images.etsy.com

Can this library improve my THAC0?
 
2007-08-25 09:38:36 PM  
Bleys is going to try and blow it up. Thank god Hal Mayne will figure out how to open the creative universe for us.
 
2007-08-25 09:44:42 PM  
Screw the architecture. Fifteen million books! I'm moving to Belarus and getting a library card.
 
2007-08-25 09:47:04 PM  
Use the Dewey Decimal system, Luke....
 
2007-08-25 09:50:23 PM  
Erofeev: Screw the architecture. Fifteen million books! I'm moving to Belarus and getting a library card.

"The National Library only has 8 million in its collection, so there should be plenty of space..."

You might also need a moped to move between the very spaced out bookshelves... since its about 7 Million short. Also have fun living in a former soviet bloc country whose GDP is beaten out per capita by countries half its population... and where school children are extorted to pay for giant gaudy libraries...
 
2007-08-25 09:50:38 PM  
When completed, it'll be big enough to house a whopping 15 million books. The National Library only has 8 million in its collection, so there should be plenty of space leftover for restaurants, gyms, and for the president to roam the hallways in a black cloak, breathing Vader-like while dramatic music plays in the background."

I lol'd.
 
2007-08-25 09:51:33 PM  
Erofeev: Screw the architecture. Fifteen million books! I'm moving to Belarus and getting a library card.

Total of 134,517,714 items in the collections, including:

from: We win (new window)
 
2007-08-25 09:54:14 PM  
Just a side note, Belarus is not Russia. By all accounts, Russia is a better place to live.

First of all, Belarus got about 70% of Chernobyl's fallout. That can lower property values.

Second, Lukashenko is bat-poopy (is bat-feces better?) crazy. Forcing students to pay for a library that will sit half-empty, is fairly mild for him.
 
2007-08-25 10:00:55 PM  
Erofeev: Screw the architecture. Fifteen million books! I'm moving to Belarus and getting a library card.

The article said that they had room for fifteen million books but the National Library currently only had eight million books.

Personally I can't decide if it's more hideous than the new Seattle central library. I would need to see if the interior has those awful concrete floors, neon green elevators and escalators, and in general looks like they ran out of money.
 
2007-08-25 10:01:05 PM  
M-O-O-N... That spells library!
 
2007-08-25 10:01:56 PM  
It phony major, Lukashenko learn nothing. Nothing!
 
2007-08-25 10:03:13 PM  
I am a cat-hating, cardigan-eschewing, straight/married with kids, no bun or butch cut hairdo librarian, and that thing is ugly. As a discotheque, it's got my vote. As a discotheque in Vegas, it's in the running. As a discotheque in space where the Rebel Alliance can boogie away their Empire-fightin' stress, it wins.
 
2007-08-25 10:05:08 PM  
the_cnidarian

Ooh. Okay, change of plans. I'm moving to America and getting a library card!
 
2007-08-25 10:11:14 PM  
Charles Lee 2007-08-25 09:13:36 PM
Get yourself a tab, a chair, sit and watch the whole night go by.



*sigh* if only I knew where to get one... or 10
 
2007-08-25 10:13:29 PM  
I think a Death star building would make a fine casino in Vegas.
 
2007-08-25 10:13:53 PM  
i210.photobucket.com
"I find your lack of periodicals disturbing...."
 
2007-08-25 10:19:05 PM  
geetus: The National Library only has 8 million in its collection

Yeah, but they're all dictated by Lukashenko.
 
2007-08-25 10:21:00 PM  
I'm Belarusian, so I'm getting a kick...etc., etc.
 
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