Caution Wet Floor, But It’s All Wet, All the Time
In the Walter Netsch designed Arts & Architecture Building at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Harrison Street, the janitorial staff is working around the clock. When I enter the building in the morning they are mopping and when I exit the building in the evening they are still mopping; the building will never be clean. When a ‘Caution Wet Floor’ sign is stationed in a walkway after a mopping, dusty grey footprints immediately circle the bright yellow warning sign. It’s as if the floors live in a perpetual coating of salt and a constant layer of dust creating the need to mop an around-the-clock task.
In Pollen — The UIC/SoArch Journal Fall 2024
