Pavement puzzle adds intrigue on Chimes

Code created to form pattern

By Steven Ward

Advocate staff writer

June 10, 2012

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Landscape architect Brian Goad has a secret and he doesn’t think the community can solve the puzzle.

Goad designed a recently completed sidewalk on the north side of Chimes Street, from Highland Road to Infirmary Drive, in the Northgate community near LSU.

[…or you can look at this…]

Although the sidewalk has new lighting, benches and bicycle racks, Goad’s secret can be found easily atop the concrete pavement of the sidewalk itself.

Deciphering the secret code is something else altogether.

“All I can say is the code relates to LSU, Baton Rouge and Chimes Street. It took a lot of research because it involved fields not in my expertise,” Goad, 32, said recently while standing on the sidewalk in front of Highland Coffees.

“I’d be surprised if anybody can figure it out,” he said.

And you can solve the puzzle at home with this amazing picture:
Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAUBrian Goad, a landscape architect currently with Susan Turner & Associates

[…or you can look at this …using street view – and watch it be built over time – since the satellite images are from 2008.  You solve the mystery as it updates over the years…]

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