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I admit that the first time I saw this building
\n rising out of a dirt mine in the industrial underbelly of Cambridge,
\n behind sleazy Central Square and across the tracks from the main MIT
\n campus I thought I was having an acid flashback. No such luck.
\n Now an obligatory stop on the local tour when architects come to visit,
\n the over-budget and past-deadline project elicits comments as disparate
\n as "Genuis" and "Demented".<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
by Will Frank Gehry’s wildly over-budget and years-behind-schedule When announced in 1997, the intended completion date was 2000, the announced The current, faddish Gehry look has become a victim of self-parody, or at I admit that the first time I saw this building rising out of a dirt mine in the industrial underbelly of Cambridge, behind sleazy Central Square and across the tracks from the main MIT campus I thought I was having … Continue reading
\n Alan Lupo in the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences at MIT
\n prove to be a well-intentioned embarrassment? Signs point to yes. <\/p>\n
\n budget was $100 million, and Gehry’s swirling, off-kilter polished steel,
\n glass,
\n and brick facades still seemed avant-garde. His Guggenheim
\n Museum Bilbao had just opened
\n to almost universal, fawning praise. MIT brass now peg the budget at $300
\n million, although a June press release from a Stata Center supplier put
\n the cost at $430 million. The completion
\n date is spring 2004. And what once appeared futuristic now looks like a
\n jumbly rehash of existing Gehry piles. <\/p>\n
\n least of parody, to be sure. It is no accident that MIT’s Department of Linguistics,
\n which is slated to move into Stata, displays the famous Onion
\n magazine<\/a> satire
\n — ”Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed to Make Sandwiches for Grandkids” —
\n on its website (mit.edu\/linguistics\/ www\/stata\/stata.html). <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"