Trip to the roof of the GTL building

What better to do when procrastinating from studying than to explore the building we all have spent so many hours locked up in?

Thus, I discovered that the roof of the GTL building was unlocked and decided to venture out in the hope of getting some good sunset pictures. Hopefully this won't incriminate me, but I don't really care. ;)

This is Borny, the neighborhood/quartier near the Technopôle. The highrise apartments are pretty representative of the housing there, but it's a neat community. Borny (along with GTL students) supports a decent Kebab stand, post office, bakery, drugstore, and quite a few other things.
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This is a view of the jail across rue de Strasbourg from GTL. It's basically a low-security local correctional facility; I get the impression that it services Metz and the surrounding area only. Besides having interesting architecture, it's been a good neighbor so far.
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These are the France Telecom (TDF) satellite dishes.
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And this is the tower they have on the top. It has a cell site and quite a few link antennae, but nothing else too interesting. A lot of the equipment is similar to what's up on top of Mont St. Quentin and the Eiffel tower, which isn't too surprising.
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This is a control panel for the HVAC stuff on the roof of GTL. I'm going to assume that it's more HV and less AC, but that's just because of the climate here.
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These are some of the valves.
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And these appear to be heaters.
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This is me, taken with the silly tripod I bought in germany for 10,- DM ($5 US).
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And again, me.
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The GTL entrance driveway (ALOES is visible across lac Symphonie).
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Another shot of Borny.
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This was an attempt at art. The windows here are all fairly well designed to reflect sunlight for energy efficiency.
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The rest of these pictures are just some of the sunset shots that I took. The weather can be really beautiful around here sometimes.
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As usual, thumbnails are available of the whole image collection.