Submitted by ergotpoisoning t3_10fb6ku in todayilearned
It would be hell trying to read there.
The milf gong
Get it on, have a baby, bang a gong. It's kind of dirty sweet.
a public library is an odd choice to make noise
I love a good library.
Have you ever been to Stuttgart? The library there is beautiful'
https://www.archdaily.com/193568/stuttgart-city-library-yi-architects
really cheap nearby property available too!
Never been to Stuttgart but that looks fantastic!
I lived in an apartment about 15 minutes walk away along the old docks, brand new building with gorgeous views out over the ocean. Best sunrises I have ever seen. Couldn't really recommend Aarhus more as somewhere to live
I’m surprised they don’t have problems with some dumbass kid just spamming the gong button while they’re at the hospital
Pubic library
That's why the sign when you enter town says "Welcome to Aarhus; get it on, bang the Gong, get it on."
Aarhus isn't handling all births of India, it's not going off every second.
Either I've messed up my maths, or I should expect the Gong to go off every 11 minutes, assuming the 300,000-strong city had a perfectly proportional share of the 4-per-second birth rate of the entire globe.
My first thought would be a timer, programme it so you had to wait a minute before it could go off again. Or a nurse would have a key to switch the button on.
It definitely doesn't, Asia and Africa especially turns up that number a lot, afair the average woman has 1.8 kids here.
That's why I stated that assumption, I admit that it's napkin maths.
Although I don't really think birth rates to be that widely distributed anymore. Most of Asia and the Middle East is down to similar levels as Europe and the Americas at around 2 births per woman, many of those countries spent the last 70 years bringing child mortality and the birth rate down (Bangladesh for example is precisely 2.00 births per woman). Sub-Saharan Africa's birth rate is higher, most of the population growth in the next century will be there, but right now Africa's share of the global population isn't that large at 1.2 billion.
First you get the dong
Then you ring the gong
Great idea but not in a library
Get it on, bang a gong
Kinda hoping to see a picture of the bell. Ringing bells gives me a good vibe~~~
There were only 180 babies born per day in all of Denmark in 2021. Your math would have 130 born per day in Aarhus alone.
TIL Aarhus is in Denmark. I always thought Aarhus was in the middle of our street.
Very cool yet not a bell. Just a chime. No disrespect but there is a difference in my opinion.
What's the difference? Does a bell have to have a clapper inside? In which case I don't know definitively that The Gong doesn't use a clapper. It just isn't bell-shaped
That's awesome.
At the hospital we had our kids. They play a short lullaby over the speakers every time a baby is born.
What's crazier is, when we had our daughter, there was a "baby wave" (the nurses words) and we basically heard it non-stop for the two nights we were there.
It's was really fun actually.
I worked at a hospital that did that. I thought there needed to be symmetry- Brahms' Lullaby for a birth, Chopin's Funeral March for a death. You could tell how the night was going that way.
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that's ominous as fuck
You’re fired.
No babies born on the 1 day I was there 😂
No worries mate. It’s an acoustic thing.
Born and raised in Aarhus. My mother did ring a that back when I was born
I don’t find your joke very funny but also find 33 downvotes to be a bit much.
Oh man, I had completely forgotten about it! Was stationed by rammstein in 03-04 and we went to Stuttgart just bumming around, we were talking in the restaurant and a local recommended we stop by there and take a look, it was awesome just the scale of it
I think thT’s wonderful.
That was beautiful.
Hopefully there are no millionaires setting up a murder mystery game there.
I think it's hilarious
everyone hated that
I had surgery at a hospital that did that. It was a fucking nightmare, I kept getting woken up all night. I was about ready to snap by the time I was allowed to leave.
I love this. Every town should have this. I would be so happy every time I heard the gong. How do we make this happen?
And not just a gong. A magnificent rolling peal of huge bells.
Well done
You're right! I've lived close to this place since 2015, and have written ton of assignments, sitting in this building. They placed the children's zone close to the gong, which is a common thing in Danish libraries. I guess because it's not going to be completely quiet in that area anyways. In my experience though, the gong rarely gongs(?) and has been offline for longer periods of time. During 100+ hours spent in that building, I've heard it less than five times.
Oh, thats insane.
They only played the chime very quietly and only in the Maternity Ward hallways, not the rooms.
Ya, hearing that over the entire fucking hospital!? That's awful.
No, Aarhus is in the middle of Aar street.
I have lived five minutes away from it, since the week after it opened in 2015. Have done a ton of uni work at there, as I didn't want to ride my bike up the hill on to AU. It was the convenient option - not the best option.
In my experience, the building actually mostly functions a citizen service center for the municipality, where you can get passports/driver's licenses renewed, get your pension, move address etc. At least if you look at what the majority of people are there for, and not that department's footprint in the building. I could be wrong, but it sure feels that way.
To me, Dokk1 is a big bulding that happens to also hold books. With embarrassingly scarce proper seating and not a lot of either peace nor quiet. The building's cool and all, but as a library, functionally, I don't think it should be even on a top 100. Where are you supposed to read/work? Five tiny(!) private group study rooms for a city with more than 50k students. When kids run around screaming upstairs/on the ramp, or there's an event going on in the open, that's not enough if you want to have a great library imo.
Sure, you can get books, and if you're lucky, they even have the one you're looking for on hand, and not at one of their 10 other/old branches in some suburb, as they have only one copy between them all. They usually can get it to their branch within a day or two.
I'd like to know the real reason it won a prize as a library, because it would be odd to me, if it wasn't simply the architecture, that was commended.
Edit: I sound ranty. I guess I had some real dog shit days there the last few times, trying to study there for exams, so that's probably why. Shit seats, loud kids, and a Street Fighter tournament taking over the whole ramp area at 15.30 on a Thursday, when all students in the city were studying for their exams. Everyone looked pissed.
If you are born at home via midwife, they just toss you into the volcano
That sounds obnoxious
You rang?
"Sssshhhhh, please be quiet in the library." ... "GOOOOOOONG!"
Get it on.
Bang a gong.
Get it on?
The car dealership made me do something similar to this the last time I bought a car and I hated it. I’m not exactly the “hey everyone, look at me I just did a thing” type of person. It was awkward too, because he walked over with the Gong and stood there with a goofy smile on his face until I agreed to strike it with the mallet. Made me wanna cancel the sale.
Imagjne that in main cities in China / India, all day long donging
Slightly different bell ringing than the undead parish.
This is the kind of stuff that gets me out of dystopic nightmare that is our existence. We are capable of such cool things and this is way up there!
Look again, it's at 80 now. Reddit is all about the bandwagon
Ghent, Belgium has 1800's style old ornate streetlamps that turn on with every child born. It's at the "Veerleplein", next to Counts Castle.
Novel, but fun to see if your having a drink at the Veerleplein and another Ghentian is born :)
ergotpoisoning OP t1_j4vnxr9 wrote
I lived in Aarhus for a while in 2016/17 and can confirm that Dokk1 is the best library in the world. Just the most incredible resource for the citizens and visitors, an example of what public buildings should be like everywhere.