This is the Graduate School of Business
GSB
It was designed to encapsulate some of the architectural details of the the Robie House, which is across the street.
Robie House
The GSB has a problem. There is a lot of glass as you can see and as a result, there are a lot of dead birds. When the birds migrate south, there are a lot of dead birds on the north side, and when they migrate north, the birds remains fall on the south side. To combat this problem the GSB has dark screens that they lower over the windows at night to help prevent these suicide plunges. 
Have no fear, this seems to be a big problem here in the city. The McCormick Convention Center, which is really really big and has a lot of windows, has the same problem. They have around 50 birds every day that fly into the windows.
Have no fear, this seems to be a big problem here in the city. The McCormick Convention Center, which is really really big and has a lot of windows, has the same problem. They have around 50 birds every day that fly into the windows. So what do they do?
They gather them up and freeze the dead birds.
Eventually a scientist from the Field Museum comes and collects them. They are conducting a study to see what kind of birds are most common in these collision, as well as other tests to understand the nature of birds.
Anyway, kind of disturbing hu.
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So, back in the day, I was a janitor at BYU for the tanner building. A daytime janitor, which means I had the random jobs that weren't important enough to complete at 4 am. Like the job of sweeping all the stairs and sidewalks outside...which included cleaning up all the dead birds that had committed suicide against the TNRB windows. Let's just say, I swept outside once a week, maybe. You can imagine some of the fun, bloated surprises I found.
Yeah, it's pretty gross.
It's a terrible way to go, for a bird.
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