I was summoned for jury duty and all I got was this pretty photograph. [OC]

CrimeDad · 7 months ago

I was summoned for jury duty and all I got was this pretty photograph. [OC]

@spittingimage@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Looks like you got summoned to the prison for jury duty.

@FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today · 7 months ago

A lot of US Courthouses are physically connected to the Jailhouse and PD, I assume it’s the same for other nations but idk.

CrimeDad · 7 months ago

When I was a kid I used to drive by the Pirelli building all the time and dreading that I might have to go to work in a big, beige building like that one day. I never liked buildings like that until somehow it just clicked for me in my late twenties. Now I think brutalism and similar styles are wonderful.

Anyway, maybe I’m just a weirdo, but it was actually surprisingly pleasant in there: clean and calm with friendly, easy going staff. I kind of regret getting excused a little bit.

@Got_Bent@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Oh. You like brutalism.

Well look where I went to school.

CrimeDad · 7 months ago

Nice!

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet · 7 months ago

You’ll love the AT&T Long Lines Building in NYC then.

@sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago

It’s a beautiful building but it’s frightening to see in real life. A monolithic lair for some unseen unknowable horror.

CrimeDad · 7 months ago

Part of what I like about it is that it’s not pretending to be something else. It looks like a an extremely secure, resilient building, which is exactly what it is, but it still looks good.

@GoosLife@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

I actually think thats a pretty building, while finding the other buildings mentioned in this thread boring to ugly. Just to put in my two cents. At least this one has a prettier color.

CrimeDad · 7 months ago

I do!