Frank Gehry, famed for making buildings that look as if they escaped a sci fi movie or a funhouse, is being sued over a building he designed for M.I.T. The building, which looks like a cake whose layers are slipping out of place, has water issues. M.I.T charges that flaws in Frank Gehry’s design of the $300 million Stata Center in Cambridge, one of the most celebrated works of architecture unveiled in years, caused leaks to spring, masonry to crack, mold to grow, and drainage to back up. It leaks. Other than that, everything is fine.The suit also says that…
Category: architecture
Buildings-Great, Small and Favorite
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had an interesting article about America’s favorite architecture, a website that lists all the usual suspects of buildings in our fair land. North Texas was left a bit wanting on the list, so the Telegram listed it’s own favorite buildings, the number one spot going to the Kimbell Art Museum designed by Louis Kahn. For those not familiar with the museum, let’s just say that Hitler would feel right at home in this shrine to concrete. So it is no surprise to me that Fort Worth’s famous bomb shelter didn’t make the list of favorite buildings.…