Kitchen and Reality Gap

Once it was finished, the New Building brought us needed space and some interesting amenities. Kitchen and cafeteria, for instance: here’s new hire Seamus Kearney displaying a product with pride and trademark good humor.

Also the “Reality Gap,” a red-carpeted meeting space adorned with one of Clark’s largest canvases. It got remodeled out, some years after I left, but while it lasted, it illustrated the need to ring all relevant disciplines into a design. A design engineer with credentials in ergonomics might have proportioned those steps differently.

Or maybe Clark intended the Gap as an educational device: it gave us adults, after all, a chance to learn why children fidget on adult-sized furniture. Lacking the opportunity for simultaneous leg-dangle and back-support, some of us big folks found the seating here most fidgetiferous.