Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library may not look very special from above:
… but from street level it’s a different story!
Created several years ago by design firm Dimensional Innovations, the facade of the garage portrays a 9m high ‘community bookshelf’. The titles represented were selected by local residents.
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So the building is 9m high? How many storeys is that?
Its a very novel idea isnt it?
1m=39in thus 9m=29′3″ most likely only 2 stories.
I think you may have a missed a little punning there
pan a bit to the right and you can see that it is a 3-level structure.
Excellent looking big stuff!