Historical Cover-Up
As more and more time passes, people are renovating and updating many parts of their homes and offices. With new and improved technology, it only makes sense that people wish to keep updated with the times. Even if it means saying a temporary goodbye to beautiful architecture.
It appears that in this office building the previous tenants tried to cover up this gorgeous, vintage ceiling. We can’t understand anyone would want to do that, but we can understand that if you want air conditioning in an old building then it is easier to do this than to redo the actual wiring of the building.