eBestMagazine (November 6, 2007)
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is suing renowned architect Frank Gehry, alleging serious design flaws in the $300 million Stata Center."
(Photo by Jonas_K, used w/o permission)
MIT didn't file the lawsuit because its directors sobered up and realized what the $300,000,000 center looks like. The building is molding.
"Lost in the Funhouse" (FASTCOMPANY.com (February, 2008)) is a pretty good discussion of what seems to have gone so horribly wrong with this architectural bad trip.
The short version is that the architect and contractor managed to put of a 'perfect lemon' of sloppy specifications and construction. As one fellow, who knows how buildings are supposed to be put together said in the article: "It was obvious it wasn't going to work from watching it go up."
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