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[in-enaction] superstars: FoG and his MIT Pile-UP


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+  From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  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.

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/11112007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/frank_lloyd_wrong_878032.htm

 
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