Shocking, just shocking...

[jducoeur]

The news of the day is that MIT is suing architect Frank Gehry, because -- shock, surprise -- it turns out that Stada Center is badly designed. I could have told them that years ago.

Yes, yes -- the problem isn't that the building is ugly, it's that it is actually disfunctional. But y'know, those aren't unrelated. The rules of architecture were developed for good reason, and casting them (not to mention common sense) aside in the name of Art is always a bit dangerous...

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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Oh, did it turn out that the Great Old Ones escaped from the basement? (I always figured that the only reason for such extreme non-Euclidean geometry was in order to imprison Lovecraftian horrors.)