September 2017 | Eyesore

Commentary on architectural blunders in monthly serial.

Behold the Children’s Splish Splash Garden, downtown Omaha, Nebraska. This lame gesture of a play area for kids is tucked behind what looks like a forensic pathology lab, with excellent views to the four-laner twenty feet away. It was actually put there to assuage the consciences of the grown-ups who assembled a city so dehumanizing, monotonous, charmless, and depressing that children living in it would never become fully-functioning adults. Here’s a view (below) from another angle showing the lively street scene. And you wonder why Americans take so many mood-altering drugs…?
Thanks and cheers to Abigail Newsham for nominating this humdinger.