How was this not addressed during the planning phase.

Y I Oughta

Courthouse in Ohio built with a glass staircase. If you wear a skirt to court take the elevator. I just don't know how this got past the planning stages and was actually put in place without anyone questioning it.
www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/06/08/new-courthouses-glass-stairs-draw-concerns-of-peeping.html?sid=101">




Sorry if this was already discussed, I haven't been around too much lately.

Edited for spelling TK didn't catch as wrong.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

Oh schnikies.

SarahPLiz

Meh, just remember to wear undies. 

mehgank

Wow. Yeah, someone effed up.

Wiscisbliss

Were any women on the design comittee?


I work with all dudes at an engineering company (120 men and 6 women) I am the only woman in management, and this doesn't really surprise me at all.  I chaged my name when I got married and our systems couldn't handle it.  I still break our internal computer programs fairly regularly because of the name-change. 

I ordered a company polar-fleece (only a woman's version) and the CEO wanted to know why mine had cool seaming on it.  I told him it was because it was a woman's shirt.  He expressed confusion, and wanted one with racing stripe seams.  I really didn't want to get into a talk about having boobs vs not having boobs, so I said "Maybe it is a new style, you should look at the new catalog"

I can't wait for the day I have a baby and we have to have the pumping talk.

Long story short - I am not surprised by this. 

NuggetBrain

What is with this need to make every building out there visually pleasing??  Its a courthouse, not a museum or a damn symphony hall.  People are going there to deal with legal issues.  I highly doubt they'll be appreciating the play of the morning sun on the delicate glass features when they're on their way to a trial for aggravated assault.

kd.joseph

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[QUOTE]Meh, just remember to wear undies. 
Posted by SarahPLiz[/QUOTE]

I never go with out undies. But my dear step-daughter does not. Guess who flashed everyone at the "Louvre" when we were in Paris. Yeah, she passed one of the forced air vents.

She still hasnt learned.

Bkseller13

And, one has to wonder how much more the glass steps cost the taxpayers.  Hmmmmm.

achiduck

Hopefully those going to court are modest enough not to go commando!

undyingmizery

That's not surprising to me either

Hey YIO! A little over a week! How are you feeling? (sorry for thread jack)

Y I Oughta

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[QUOTE]That's not surprising to me either :/ Hey YIO! A little over a week! How are you feeling? (sorry for thread jack)
Posted by undyingmizery[/QUOTE]

Ya, getting close. Not freaking out or anything but there is a little me deep down inside that is jumping up and down screaming that things aren't done. At least that's the best way I can think to describe it. It hasn't really hit me yet, but I think it will this Friday once I start my vaca from work and start picking up the people coming in from out of town. FI's brother is the first on Saturday from Korea.

Y I Oughta

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[QUOTE]Duds, I wondered about that too.  Are kilts a common form of dress in Ohio?
Posted by rhonwynv[/QUOTE]

Not normally, but maybe she was thinking about men the way men weren't thinking about women when the staircase was built. She was being inclusive. However it would be funny if a peeping Tom, hoping to look up women's skirts, got full view of a man wearing a kilt with nothing underneath.

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Judging from the picture in the article, it doesn't look like it would be easy to get a peep show out of those stairs. The part you step on is solid, so it seems like any other staircase to me where the wall parts aren't connected. My school had some like that.

Steph0871

This seems like someone who wants media attention.  What about other places (like deck steps?) where you don't have anything on the vertical part of the stairs?  Does that make sense?

The new library in Minneapolis has stairs like that, too, and I would NEVER have thought to be concerned about this.

http://www.mintahoe.com/go/venues/minneapolis-central-library/gallery

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: How was this not addressed during the planning phase. : This, and the functionality of it too.  It will get scuffed up quickly, when it's dirty it will be really obvious, and anyone who has a fear of heights/doesn't like gaps between steps will not like the fact that the stepps are see through.
Posted by rhonwynv[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I've been on a glass staircase in 4 inch heels and believe me, I took the elevator when I left. I'm petrified of heights.

CassandraPotter

classy.

megahontas

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[QUOTE]Meh, just remember to wear undies. 
Posted by SarahPLiz[/QUOTE]

HAHAHHAHAAA.... OMG. Love this!

jenjenaz

most apartment complexes that i've lived in don't have anything solid on the vertical part of the stairs -- just the steps -- which is, essentially, what they've got with this design. 

i don't get what the big deal is.  honestly, some wanker wants to stand under the stairs to get a good shot of my underwear, oh well.  good for him.  i guess everyone needs a purpose in life.

skippylouwho

Glass staircases are a popular trend. The Ohio State University Thompson Library (Main library) considered them during their recent rennovatin but instead put in opaque glass. They still get the light look they wanted without being able to see through them.

http://library.osu.edu/about/locations/thompson-library/

katy0293

Ummm Yeah... FI told me about this yesterday.  His exact words were: "Babe... better remember to wear pants when we go get our marriage license..." lol