There’s a flurry of construction happening in my research institute and the hospital area in which the hospital is situated. The hospital is erecting a new building which has reached 4 storeys in height (left photo in the middle of this page) while the research institute is building an extension, the sight of which changes by the day. The extension was adjacent to another research institute that is still relatively new, only 6 years old and has received architectural awards of some kind (the white building behind the crane in the right photo in the middle of this page). But you would never have thought the building has been through some serious architectural issues already! The labs and offices are built along two sides of the building, joined by walkways with glass banisters. However, the two sides of the building have been sinking unevenly, and one day in the last two years (the exact date of which I would not know, since I’ve only heard about it now) the banisters have suddenly all