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MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Design of Celebrity Architect's 'Party of Drunken Robots' Building
- gibsonf1 19y agoThat MIT would be foolish enough to build something this ugly is hard to understand. But again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- aston 19y agoI assume you haven't been inside. It's by far the coolest campus building (on a campus filled with cool buildings). Lots of natural light, lots of wide open spaces, and a general vibe of forcing people to run into each other for interesting conversations. I mean, the main hallway has walls covered in huge blackboards (and chalk stored behind).
- gibsonf1 19y agoThat sounds functionally good, but why make it so hideously ugly? In 20 years, people may think that the powers that be at MIT in our current era were totally clueless about design and crazy to build something so laughable.
- rms 19y agoIt reminds me of something out of Dr. Seuss. I generally like it precisely because it is so ridiculous.
- asdflkj 19y agoSo do you agree that it's ugly on the outside? If not, then people who think so might not want to take your word for how it feels inside, either.
- chaostheory 19y agoyeah... it looks like the work of picasso's spiritual descendant
- mgummelt 19y agoThe beauty of it matches the beauty of MIT's culture. The building matches the university's quirkiness. I visited for a few days and everyone told me I had to visit the cool new CS building.
- juanpablo 19y ago"These things are complicated, and they involve a lot of people, and you never quite know where they went wrong, (...) A building goes together with seven billion pieces of connective tissue. The chances of it getting done ever without something colliding or some misstep are small." That's a blatant lie. Civil engineering it is a precise discipline and a margin of error it's always part of the calculations. Sloppy structural analysis? Bad materials? The contractor didn't follow the specifications? You can know exactly what went wrong.