Deadly Design

Paul Wells points to a Globe and Mail article which suggests the ROM new wing, well, leaks.
I spent several years of my life just down the street and I suspect that leaks are the least of the ROM’s worries. Here’s a surprise. It snows on Bloor Street. And there is wind. Stuff – and chaps staggering back from the Duke – freezes. Then it thaws. Then it slides down the hundred feet of glass and kills every single one of Miss Smith’s first grade class.
If you live in Vancouver and walk into the Courthouse you get dripped on. Do the same thing in April at the ROM and you risk the icicle to the top of the head or a ton and a half of semi-frozen snow avalanching on your noggin.

Reminds me of the Veterinary School at UPEI: The slanted roof is made of aluminum meaning when the accumulated snow melts it slides real good. Apparently, the architect was from Bermuda. They don’t get as much snow in Bemuda as we do in PEI. Or so I hear.