MIT to Gehry: Fix your leaking, cracked, moldy thing, NOW

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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.

"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!

Gareth | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 9:40am

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!

SwirlyGrrl | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 9:42am

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.

Bostionian (not verified) | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 10:55am

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.

S. (not verified) | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 11:41am
adamg | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 11:44am

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.

BR (not verified) | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 1:57pm

to add insult to injury

or the BAC (Boston Architectural College) on Newbury St.

S. (not verified) | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 3:26pm
Ron Newman | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 3:47pm

BAC

It reminds me of City Hall.

S. (not verified) | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 5:23pm

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

SwirlyGrrl | Tue, 11/06/2007 - 5:30pm

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