A kitchen sink in the island is just not practical. Who wants to sit at the island and look into the sink with dirty dishes in it? Islands are great for setting out a buffet, and then there's a dirty sink in the middle of it all! No thanks!
"This is a building of the people," the squatter Dominique, who had worked construction, told me, referring to its history as a public health agency and its suitability for heavy use. Hard floors swept clean. Banks of cabinets, their material a blond composite, lined the halls, which at rhythms of their own let onto rooms that had been government workers' offices."