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I have NEVER seen the plastic edging type surround an entire play equipment. If this edging is used, then its only found in front of shrubs in the perimeter.

You and Andrew simply have different experiences with edging in general than myself. With all the fun, colorful play equipment around, why would any kid play with a plastic edging? There’s nothing beyond the edging to play in. Some clients really do want it and if its done correctly, you don’t even notice it.
 

Elizabeth, What you’re talking about and the original discussion question are day and night. If you are doing a private estate with a playground, maybe your idea is ideal, but most other clients want those plastic structures which allows kids physical play. Better than PlayStation for 4 hours a day. Sometimes you have to be practical.

No big deal, but actually I’m a “Mrs.”  🙂
You can actually just call me Claudia.

thinking about Mr. Rainey’s idea of a ‘memorial’ at sea, or whatever you want to call it, reminds me that the original design for the manhattan World Trade Center memorial was two voids out in the Hudson, the absent footprints of the World Trade Centers..I reallly liked that idea..
Do we have paintings of the faces of evil? Do they serve any…[Read more]

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Ach well, I’ll cross that bridge if I come to it!

Really good idea, thanks Wes.

three trillion dollars.

Sorry, I will comment now on what you actually asked for!
 
First of all, I think for anyone besides the people who supported him to erect any sort of memorial would be crass, like rubbing salt into the wound.  Perhaps mention of the timeline could be made at the Ground Zero memorial, but it would need to be carefully worded to not enflame r…[Read more]

They did take DNA samples of the body before they buried him at sea, anyway.  That’s what they said on NPR this morning.

It would be a tough thing to lie about, I am sure that Al Qaeda would immediately produce him and call us on it.

I agree.  I find it quite sad to find people chanting outside of the white house (or anywhere else for that matter) like it were some sort of sporting event that this guy was killed.  Since his name became part of our everyday, hundreds of thousands of people have died. We invaded Iraq –a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 a…[Read more]

Excellent point, I hadn’t thought of that.

Well Trace’ I was thinking more about your thread and realized that just because no one does it and probably no one would ever fund it, doesn’t mean it isn’t an interesting design challenge to consider.
It seems to me that a “memorial” to a bad guy needs to be interactive.
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I geuss you’re right, Rob..Just some crazy imaginings, on my part..I did a design for a water fountain that was supposed to be centered on a bronze statue, that depicted Cory Aquino killing Marcos (I used to live in the PI), Cory looked like the Silver Surfer, but female, and Marcos was laying across, Cory weilding a lightning bolt towards…[Read more]

But no one builds memorials for “bad guys.” Memorials for their victims, yes, but not for the guy. Stalin in his mausoleum was not intended as memorializing a monster but rather the country’s leader.
I’m guessing that the designers working on the 9/11 Museum in NYC will be wrestling with how to depict today’s events.

I didn’t get the cheering going on outside the White house.  Just wasn’t feeling like cheering.  Its like the quarterback was sacked five years after the game ended.  With high unemployment, high gas prices, and a generally sour national mood, it feels like the terrorists won.

It’s an interesting topic.  I think the closest to a villian’s memorial I can think of is when they parade around the corpse/body parts, and I guess in a way that’s more of a temporary installation than an actual design.
 
I remember reading that after WWII there was talk about not rebuilding dresden, and to leave it as a mass of wreckage and r…[Read more]

wanted to talk about proper design of a memorial, or whatever,  for a bad guy, Russ..