I think it looks cool. I used to work in buildings like this a lot. They're kinda cool. Dark, humming and clicking etc. I worked in telephony at a time when some (not many) of the old mechanical switches were still around and those buildings were especially spooky. It sounded like you were in the middle of a wild storm of crickets around 7pm when people finished dinner and started calling their friends. And all the little lights flashing all over (sometimes I used to keep the lights off for the cool effect if I could)
Some of them have half-floors for all the cable routing, where you can't really stand up.
I think this is why I like them. To me they're not just an ugly box but I always wonder what's inside.
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I think it looks cool. I used to work in buildings like this a lot. They're kinda cool. Dark, humming and clicking etc. I worked in telephony at a time when some (not many) of the old mechanical switches were still around and those buildings were especially spooky. It sounded like you were in the middle of a wild storm of crickets around 7pm when people finished dinner and started calling their friends. And all the little lights flashing all over (sometimes I used to keep the lights off for the cool effect if I could)
Some of them have half-floors for all the cable routing, where you can't really stand up.
I think this is why I like them. To me they're not just an ugly box but I always wonder what's inside.