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Gates Center for Computer Science debuts at CMU

15 points by edw519 17y ago

steveklabnik 17y ago
As a note, CMU wanted Gates to be here so badly that they literally kicked the campus police out of their building so that they could tear it down and build the Gates Center. The campus police now reside in a building that is almost off of campus entirely, a few streets away. http://bit.ly/DQr0J http://bit.ly/DQr0J
- smanek 17y ago
  The article says the site was formerly home to the campus mulch pit. Are they lying?
  - steveklabnik 17y ago
    The building is pretty huge. The old police building was only part of the new footprint.
  - vibhavs 17y ago
    Nope, they're right. There wasn't much there before. The Robotics Institute had a shop/shed of some kind. And also the CMU PD. But not much else.
cpr 17y ago
Yeah, been walking around that thing for the past couple of years of Cocoaheads meetings on the CMU campus. Too bad it's an eyesore. So much of modern architecture is an emperor-no-clothes situation, because no one has the guts to stand up and say it's ugly. Or take the Scala center at MIT--a kid's fun-house building. It's very clever on one scale, but what will people in 50 years think? They'll think our generation was nuts. These wild-idea-du-jour kinds of buildings will not endure the test of time.
- chengas123 17y ago
  past couple years? it's just opening now. has it been around that long? maybe you mean wean hall, the old CS building, which won an architectural award back in the day, but to me is an ugly bomb shelter
  - aichcon 17y ago
    It's been under construction for several years now.
- mustardhamsters 17y ago
  It's pretty wild, and the inside is confusing with the spiral and all the glass. In fact, it's more impractical than anything, some classes face windows facing the sun and have to wear sunglasses in class. I mean, it's a very nice building to be inside, but the way it's designed is like how a programmer would design a UI. Kind of fitting as the CS building funded by Microsoft money...
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butterfi 17y ago
"Architectural success occurs when artful design bolsters functionality" Oh, we're talking about the Gates Building? I thought you meant the Jobs building.

15 points by edw519 17y ago

As a note, CMU wanted Gates to be here so badly that they literally kicked the campus police out of their building so that they could tear it down and build the Gates Center. The campus police now reside in a building that is almost off of campus entirely, a few streets away. http://bit.ly/DQr0J http://bit.ly/DQr0J

smanek 17y ago
The article says the site was formerly home to the campus mulch pit. Are they lying?
- steveklabnik 17y ago
  The building is pretty huge. The old police building was only part of the new footprint.
- vibhavs 17y ago
  Nope, they're right. There wasn't much there before. The Robotics Institute had a shop/shed of some kind. And also the CMU PD. But not much else.

cpr 17y ago

Yeah, been walking around that thing for the past couple of years of Cocoaheads meetings on the CMU campus. Too bad it's an eyesore. So much of modern architecture is an emperor-no-clothes situation, because no one has the guts to stand up and say it's ugly. Or take the Scala center at MIT--a kid's fun-house building. It's very clever on one scale, but what will people in 50 years think? They'll think our generation was nuts. These wild-idea-du-jour kinds of buildings will not endure the test of time.

chengas123 17y ago
past couple years? it's just opening now. has it been around that long? maybe you mean wean hall, the old CS building, which won an architectural award back in the day, but to me is an ugly bomb shelter
- aichcon 17y ago
  It's been under construction for several years now.
mustardhamsters 17y ago
It's pretty wild, and the inside is confusing with the spiral and all the glass. In fact, it's more impractical than anything, some classes face windows facing the sun and have to wear sunglasses in class. I mean, it's a very nice building to be inside, but the way it's designed is like how a programmer would design a UI. Kind of fitting as the CS building funded by Microsoft money...

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butterfi 17y ago

"Architectural success occurs when artful design bolsters functionality" Oh, we're talking about the Gates Building? I thought you meant the Jobs building.