________________________________________________________________________________ Design Flaw Bathes Mall In Swastikas Lighting System Causing Images Will Be Removed TEMECULA, Calif., Posted 5:45 p.m. June 19, 1999 -- When the new Promenade shopping mall opens in Temecula this October, one part of the décor will have changed. A city building inspector recently noticed images of swastikas on the floor. According to CBS 2 News' Jaie Avila, the unmistakable patterns are cast by the mall's 56 skylights. "We were absolutely mortified," Deputy City Manager Gary Thornhill told Avila. "We looked at it and, I have to say, it looked like swastikas." The company building the mall said the symbols, long associated with Nazi oppression and the Holocaust, were the unintentional result of an innocent design flaw. Blue lights designed to illuminate the skylights at night are the culprit, said Avila. During the day, with the sun shining through, they create dozens of swastika shadows all over the floor. The lighting is now being removed. Ironically the mall's builder, Forest City Enterprises of Cleveland, is a big contributor to the Holocaust Museum. "We would never consciously allow this to happen. It is abhorent to us," company President Brian Jones said in a statement. Both the builder and the city of Temecula said when the new mall is unveiled swastikas are not the image they wish to project. ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 1999 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org