I spent the day yesterday at the library pictured above.  Two things struck me as odd about the building.  One, there was a pretty intense security system for a library, and two, I didn’t actually see any books.

Due to my lack of actually reading anything, the absence of books didn’t bother me.  It was more the intense security that piqued my curiosity.  As you can tell, the edifice has some curious architectural aspects too, in that it appears to be built to survive on a serious flood plain.  It’s moderately close to the river, but not even a 500-year flood would take this puppy out.  It’s modern design was met with the same skepticism that greeted the glass pyramid of the Louvre.  Side note: Robots clean the Louvre pyramid.  Eventually, the people of Buenos Aires became accustomed to the biblioteca, and it is now accepted as one of the great structures of the city.

I rather like the library, but I still can’t help but think that the altitude and security are in place for the benefit of an alien book-club.  They’re probably reading Eat, Pray, Love.