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From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:38:37 +0530
November 11, 2007 -- Memo to Frank Gehry: next time you put up yet
another of your disastrously engineered buildings, try to find a place
where it might be less conspicuous to engineers than the MIT campus.
In a lawsuit first reported by the Boston Globe last week, MIT alleged
that the three-year-old Stata Center, one of Gehry's trademark designs
from the Four Car Pileup school of architecture, is already suffering
from cracks in its amphitheater because of poor drainage, as well as
widespread leaks that have been there since virtually the day the
building opened. In winter, outdoor mini-avalanching turns entrances
into hard hat zones.
cont'd....
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11112007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/frank_lloyd_wrong_878032.htm