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Since I was at the Sunnyvale Library recently, I documented the assemblage of decrepit office buildings next to it. The signs advertising leases are still up, LMAO.
The two main frontages. In addition to the slightly ramshackle stairs, in the first picture an open-ended courtyard starts on the far left and there's a ramp up to the internal hallway and loggia system off-camera to the right.
The picnic tables are all on the side facing the library and the park area. The neglect includes not emptying the recycling. The gentleman had a similar idea to me, photographing the back of the library.
This is inside the open-ended courtyard. Note the assemblage of air conditioners and other paraphernalia that's been added. Those bits under the roof arc appear to be plywood, painted differently in different places; I'm not sure whether that was the original concept or whether there were originally louvers, blocked for better a/c, or even clerestory windows.
Your guess is probably better than mine. It's up at the roofline in the second picture above.
A couple more views showing the general construction:
and the loggias/external hallways. The heavy pipe suspended under many of the roof overhangs is a gutter system, looks to have been added relatively recently; I wonder whether it's to collect the rainwater for irrigation.
The complex meanders around internal courtyards, and was once landscaped to look nice. This is the open-ended courtyard.
And here are the closed courtyards in all their sadness.
The internal hallways have wood plank ceilings and wood trim around the windows and doors, but the effect of the views to the open air in the distance is to make me even more eager to get out of them as fast as possible.
The two main frontages. In addition to the slightly ramshackle stairs, in the first picture an open-ended courtyard starts on the far left and there's a ramp up to the internal hallway and loggia system off-camera to the right.
The picnic tables are all on the side facing the library and the park area. The neglect includes not emptying the recycling. The gentleman had a similar idea to me, photographing the back of the library.
This is inside the open-ended courtyard. Note the assemblage of air conditioners and other paraphernalia that's been added. Those bits under the roof arc appear to be plywood, painted differently in different places; I'm not sure whether that was the original concept or whether there were originally louvers, blocked for better a/c, or even clerestory windows.
Your guess is probably better than mine. It's up at the roofline in the second picture above.
A couple more views showing the general construction:
and the loggias/external hallways. The heavy pipe suspended under many of the roof overhangs is a gutter system, looks to have been added relatively recently; I wonder whether it's to collect the rainwater for irrigation.
The complex meanders around internal courtyards, and was once landscaped to look nice. This is the open-ended courtyard.
And here are the closed courtyards in all their sadness.
The internal hallways have wood plank ceilings and wood trim around the windows and doors, but the effect of the views to the open air in the distance is to make me even more eager to get out of them as fast as possible.