Intrigued by the LSE library. It's beautiful, impressive and surely prestigious. The only thing it it struggles with is being - a library.
That's not because of the absence of knowledge in form of books, it's rather through the absence of silence. The absence of mobile phone conversations, coffees and croissants. There are signs and staff everywhere to remind students that they actually are in a library and not on Oxford Circus. It's interesting how places sometimes fail to prompt behaviour that they could easily prompt a few years ago. Wonder how much the iPhone-ness of the Sir Norman Foster design has to do with this.
