Having a place for the kiddies to play is an important part of urban planning. You can’t have a city that is just boring office blocks and apartment buildings everywhere – you have to have parks and playgrounds, too. This is why this city – Japanese, though nailing down the exact city is a little tough – wanted to put in a slide.
Though they…didn’t exactly put it in the best spot. We’re told that the fence on the left is around an elementary school, so the location makes a little bit of sense, but we bet there are plenty of parents who have an issue with where this slide got placed. But maybe this is some kind of special child training. They have to be quick on their feet to avoid getting wet.
You're Doing it Wrong
Ah, London. Black taxis, Big Ben, and red telephone boxes. These are the quaint little features of this wonderful city. They are so great in fact, that other people in other parts of the world want to have them too. Sadly, however, not everyone can get it right, so they do what they can with what they have. Case in point - this telephone box.
Cultural nuances aside, this looks kind of impractical. The idea of the box is to have a private and undisturbed conversation with someone. Talk about personal space.
In Case of Emergency
Hopefully, no sudden fires start in this area. It would destroy everything by the time rescuers would be able to open the fire hydrant.
We can't think of a worse place to install a fire hydrant or anything else one would need in case of an emergency.
The Stairs to Nowhere
We’re told that these stairs were added to a house or some other building due to the simple desire for symmetry. There were stairs on the other side of the room that wound up the wall in the same way, moving in the opposite direction, and the people who built the house just could leave it without mirroring the steps, even though they don’t actually lead up to anything as far as we can tell.
Maybe there’s an attic up there or something like that. There’s obviously no kind of traditional landing to this staircase, which is the sort of thing that newer houses never have. No staircases going nowhere, no tiny bathrooms crammed into corners. There’s something really nice about those old homes and how bad they were made sometimes.
Well Placed
Talk about an indispensable soap dispenser and the weirdly placed hand dryer. At least there are two functional soap dispensers over there, with that unnecessary third one just hovering over.
It sort of looks like it's the third wheel that never quite fits in. We give this one an F in bathroom design.