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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 archite
by 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 agopast 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 agoIt's been under construction for several years now.
- mustardhamsters 17y agoIt'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...