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 Frank Gehry’s almost
finished Stata
Center has been called "the ugliest building in Cambridge"
and "an eyesore on the MIT campus." Appearantly, beauty is in the eye
of the beholder, as the controversial architect has just been hired to
head the overall design team responsible for Harvard’s next-generation
expansion into the Allston riverfront property it is currently developing….
Harvard University chose a team that includes Frank Gehry, the architect
behind MIT’s much-lauded Stata Center, to create a long-range planning
framework for the development of a new 200-acre campus in Allston.
Gehry is world-renowned for such projects as the Guggenheim Museum in
Bilbao, Spain, and Disney Hall in Los Angeles (pictured above). Last month,
the $300 million Ray and Maria Stata Center debuted at the Massachusetts
Institute
of Technology;
it will serve as MIT’s home for computer, information, and intelligence
sciences.
from the Boston Globe
Dowbrigade photo
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