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xkcd #3284: Geology Building
(thelemmy.club)
Title text:
The administration thinks it's weird, but the geologists say it looks normal.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3284/
My main university building is essentially made up of ~~seven~~ ~~eight~~ nine different buildings built in different times with different architectures all joined together in a circle. Whenever you move from one part to another, all the floors shift around and you have to take a few steps up or down (or take a tiny elevator that moves you less than 2 meters).
Edit: I lost count. It's a lot and the borders between them are sometimes fuzzy, sometimes abrupt.
It was torn down years ago, but back in the day Manhattan department store S. Klein's was built that way. They brought all the buildings on one block, tore down all the non-essential walls on the first floor, and threw up a façade to make it look like one big building. Prices were low, but if you went to the third floor for toys you had to go back to the first floor to get to the third floor cookware section.
That's pretty cool! It feels very geology adjacent, I hope they left the walls exposed so you can see the differences
Yeah, both the outside and the inside is still distinctively unique for each of the building parts.