[Buildingdata] Re: Ex-buildings

[Jo Walsh]

On 12/12/2011 15:08, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 14:57, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>> What happens when the University builds a new building with the
>> number 86?

>>> I've just seen a portacabin building dismantled;
>>> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/86.html is gone!!

I'm reminded of some barely relevant stories about MIT's "Building 20", 
a temporary building that went up during WWII and stayed up 50+ years.
http://www.eecs.mit.edu/building/20/

"Its "temporary nature" permitted its occupants to abuse it in ways that 
would not be tolerated in a permanent building. If you wanted to run a 
wire from one lab to another, you didn't ask anybody's permission -- you 
just got out a screwdriver and poked a hole through the wall. "

It was replaced by a 250M monolith with the *appearance* of flexibility.
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2004/06/designing_adapt.html
Which to some was a metaphor for the University administration.

I don't think the Building ID was reused.

Build year data is straightforwardly available here, wonder why it's a 
problem for Soton, perhaps it doesn't comprehensively exist?


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