iconocaust (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} iconocaust) wrote,@ 2007-11-06 20:16:00 |
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Justice?
MIT is responsible for some of the ugliest, most painful excuses for architecture currently stinking up central Boston, so it's something of a picker-upper to find out that they are currently in the process of suing Frank Gehry. Bone of contention: the Stata Center, a nightmarish jumble of surrealist droppings that should have stayed in the '20s horror movie that spawned it. As it turns out, however, the Center is as architecturally unsound as it is aesthetically heinous: "The school alleges the center, completed in spring 2004, has persistent leaks, drainage problems and mold growing on its brick exterior. It says accumulations of snow and ice have fallen dangerously from window boxes and other areas of its roofs, blocking emergency exits and causing damage."
With any luck, they'll get their money back and demolish this eyesore.
MIT is responsible for some of the ugliest, most painful excuses for architecture currently stinking up central Boston, so it's something of a picker-upper to find out that they are currently in the process of suing Frank Gehry. Bone of contention: the Stata Center, a nightmarish jumble of surrealist droppings that should have stayed in the '20s horror movie that spawned it. As it turns out, however, the Center is as architecturally unsound as it is aesthetically heinous: "The school alleges the center, completed in spring 2004, has persistent leaks, drainage problems and mold growing on its brick exterior. It says accumulations of snow and ice have fallen dangerously from window boxes and other areas of its roofs, blocking emergency exits and causing damage."
With any luck, they'll get their money back and demolish this eyesore.
