Comments on: Public Umbrella http://idealist.blinkr.net/public-umbrella/ dreamed objects Sat, 17 May 2008 10:06:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: Q http://idealist.blinkr.net/public-umbrella/#comment-22271 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:44:56 +0000 http://idealist.blinkr.net/public-umbrella/#comment-22271 Wouldn't that put pedestrians next to a tall metal pole during a thunder storm? Wouldn’t that put pedestrians next to a tall metal pole during a thunder storm?

]]> by: iynque http://idealist.blinkr.net/public-umbrella/#comment-19775 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:18:49 +0000 http://idealist.blinkr.net/public-umbrella/#comment-19775 Umbrellas are portable and only block the rain when it's raining. They are not improved by being permanent and stationary. You add nothing to the urban landscape but a perplexing object that fills and blocks one's view of the architecture around them. Umbrellas are portable and only block the rain when it’s raining. They are not improved by being permanent and stationary.

You add nothing to the urban landscape but a perplexing object that fills and blocks one’s view of the architecture around them.

]]> by: EbonRose http://idealist.blinkr.net/public-umbrella/#comment-19215 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:21:24 +0000 http://idealist.blinkr.net/public-umbrella/#comment-19215 Maybe this is a cultural thing, but I don't know a single American who would want to stop, rest, and contemplate the architecture around them in the middle of a rainstorm. Then again, our buildings are all utilitarian, and not nearly as attractive as those in Europe ;) Maybe this is a cultural thing, but I don’t know a single American who would want to stop, rest, and contemplate the architecture around them in the middle of a rainstorm. Then again, our buildings are all utilitarian, and not nearly as attractive as those in Europe ;)

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