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Three years after the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center opened at M.I.T., the university sued both him and the construction firm that completed the project, citing a combination of “design and construction failures†that led to “masonry cracking,†“persistent leaks,†“sliding ice and snow,†and “mold growth.†The lawsuit is ongoing; no one can agree on whom to blame for the irritants, dangers, and inconveniences that seem to plague the center. Some seem to think that the edifice, rising like an asymmetric modern temple out of the ground, is more a paean to Gehry’s own glory than a structure in which form and function embrace like old friends.
On a clear blue day, though, sun glinting off its many windows, it’s hard to fault anyone involved in bringing this crazy, angled beauty into being: a building as gawky as the late adolescents who roam its hallways, and as smart as they are, too.
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