Any no-name schmo could design a roof that didn't leak. But if you want to be avant garde, if you want to be daring, you must sacrifice your silly preconceptions about the function of a building and such pedestrian concerns as dryness.
"Because he's so daring, you figure you've got to be daring, too, if you're a client," Campbell said. "You know if you hire Frank Gehry there are going to be new kinds of problems."
I mean, you could keep rain off your head with a hat. But will people rubberneck just to see a hat? No! Be daring! Be wet! Leaks are the new thing in roofs! Wet is the new dry!
Perhaps Gehry thought that the building would have the same natural resistence to water as the paper cups and crunched up plastic bags that Gehry had his assistant scotch tape together in the mock-up.
The building design is a joke. Walking by, I feel like its 'skin' is going to slough off and onto the pedestrians below. Hopefully this means MIT is over its giddy obsession with starchitecture.
You want a fiasco? That was a fiasco. They couldn't even finish building the darn thing until new concrete construction methods were invented that could realize the sweeping architectural vision!
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Wet is the new dry
Any no-name schmo could design a roof that didn't leak. But if you want to be avant garde, if you want to be daring, you must sacrifice your silly preconceptions about the function of a building and such pedestrian concerns as dryness.
I mean, you could keep rain off your head with a hat. But will people rubberneck just to see a hat? No! Be daring! Be wet! Leaks are the new thing in roofs! Wet is the new dry!
The Ghost of Building 20!
Building 20 will get its revenge on MIT. So, you want to replace a moldy, leaking, ice-throwing dump with ... another!
Form over function
Perhaps Gehry thought that the building would have the same natural resistence to water as the paper cups and crunched up plastic bags that Gehry had his assistant scotch tape together in the mock-up.
starchitecture
The building design is a joke. Walking by, I feel like its 'skin' is going to slough off and onto the pedestrians below. Hopefully this means MIT is over its giddy obsession with starchitecture.
They should have followed Harvard's lead
And limited him to designing a one-person guardhouse.
See, the problem with
See, the problem with inventive architecture is that sometimes you get the Sydney Opera House, and sometimes you get City Hall. Or the Big Dig.
to add insult to injury
or the BAC (Boston Architectural College) on Newbury St.
what's so bad about BAC?
BAC
It reminds me of City Hall.
Sydney Opera House
You want a fiasco? That was a fiasco. They couldn't even finish building the darn thing until new concrete construction methods were invented that could realize the sweeping architectural vision!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House