Constitutional Court Justices Get Great Snacks

[merlinhawk]

The South African Constitutional Court is the sort of place ours might have been ... well, never, actually. It's a peculiar sort of place by the usual Anglo-American notion of a "court." It's short on cloistered spaces, for one thing, as most spaces other than the courtroom itself can be viewed with good clarity from multiple angles, so, for

Comments

[sharkcowsheep]

Damn. Now THAT is how to decorate a courthouse.

Of course, given that the European convention for court buildings (pillars and such) is shoplifted directly from the Greek styles predating Europe...aren't Europeans and Americans alike still being lorded over by Greek masters?

[merlinhawk]

Hrm. Come to that, yes, in a great many ways, from architecture to philosophy (Platonic ideal of a deer, my love?) to storytelling. It seems like we could find another ancient civilization to borrow traits from, from time to time. And the Greeks tended to comparatively half-ass it when it came to pillars.

Ancient Egypt did much better in the pillar department. If anyone ever asks me to design a courthouse, it'll have a hypostyle.