During a typical day at Optimus I have to run tapes to various ad agencies and other post-houses around downtown Chicago. Most of them are in large skyscrapers with extravagent lobbies. I've always thought large office buildings have a bizarre atmosphere to them, but this is the strangest one I've found yet.
It is a gigantic empty marble space with high cielings and no adornments, only a few scattered groups of leather chairs. The detail that makes this lobby especially grotesque is the silence. Outside the cross streets of Grand Avenue and State Street buzz with activity typical to the downtown of a large city. Once you step inside this lobby and the door shuts you are suddenly surrounded by near-complete silence. I would not be surprised if someone who works or worked in this building went crazy one day and screamed just to kill the soundlessness for a moment.
And I applaud them.
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