The trouble with these designs is not enough windows. Even the designs that tried to include enough windows still had some classrooms without windows.

.. and those of us that actually had the chance to live a few days in a small tower like hotel, eg. can confirm that it's a pain to furnish, too.

Finally! A post about Architecture!

Let us dance about it!

And sing to us the song of your people.

You should rather be reading BLDGBLOG then.

"The Ducal Palace at Mantua," she said, "contains a series of increasingly smaller rooms. They twine around the grand apartments, beyond beautifully carved door frames one stoops to enter. They housed the court dwarfs."

Easy for you to say...

… don't see why this should be downvoted.

I think it would be interesting to play a game of basketball on a curved court in the proposed-circular gym :)

Surely you'd play it with a basketcube.

Or a basketscutoid.

Bascutoid.