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Comment panopticon (Score 1) 279

The description of the new building reminds me very much of the Panopticon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

From the Wiki article: "The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the incarcerated being able to tell whether they are being watched."

Like this, but with bigger windows:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Presidio_Modelo.JPG

Employee? Prisoner? Who's to say?

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