Nitpicking, but he lies right off-the-bat: "Yeah. And the presumption is that I wouldn’t be able to stay on budget, which is the opposite of the truth. Every o

Nitpicking, but he lies right off-the-bat: "Yeah. And the presumption is that I wouldn’t be able to stay on budget, which is the opposite of the truth. Every one of our buildings hits the budget." MIT Stata Center was budgeted at $100M. It was well over 4x that cost before it was even finished (http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2003/09/11/questions_build_right_along_with_mits_stata_center/ http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2003/09...). The costs went up from there, as when it rained outside, it also rained inside, and there were all sorts of other unforeseen problems. There were litigation, which Gehry shrugged off. The inside of the building was a train wreck. You had walls at odd angle, where you couldn't fit a standard bookcase or file cabinet. The acoustics meant that you could hear conversations as far as a different floor. All the issues to make it a practical place to work still haven't been addressed. But as much as it sucks as a place to work, it's a great monument to faculty and administrator egos.