When Is a Stripper Pole Not a Stripper Pole?
by Rebecca Schoenkopf
A delightful architecture review by Christopher Hawthorne of the new W hotel/condo/transit stop/be-seen-athon includes this most delightful note:
On the top floor of the hotel tower is a bachelor suite featuring a small raised area that includes a stripper pole -- or rather did include a stripper pole until city building inspectors, according to Olson Rigdon, asked the W to remove it because the area wasn't wheelchair accessible. (Any elevated space inside a hotel room with a dedicated use has to accommodate wheelchairs; removing the pole, apparently, was enough to remove the use.)
Oh, Americans With Disabilities Act! How unforeseen are your consequences! For further explication of unforeseen consequences, see this great old chestnut by the great R. Scott Moxley. Being great, as his wont.
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