Gates Center for Computer Science debuts at CMU(post-gazette.com)
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Gates Center for Computer Science debuts at CMU
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09264/999551-298.stm
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It's pretty wild, and the inside is confusing with the spiral and all the glass. In fact, it's more impractical than anything, some classes face windows facing the sun and have to wear sunglasses in class.
I mean, it's a very nice building to be inside, but the way it's designed is like how a programmer would design a UI. Kind of fitting as the CS building funded by Microsoft money...
I mean, it's a very nice building to be inside, but the way it's designed is like how a programmer would design a UI. Kind of fitting as the CS building funded by Microsoft money...
past couple years? it's just opening now. has it been around that long?
maybe you mean wean hall, the old CS building, which won an architectural award back in the day, but to me is an ugly bomb shelter
It's been under construction for several years now.
As a note, CMU wanted Gates to be here so badly that they literally kicked the campus police out of their building so that they could tear it down and build the Gates Center. The campus police now reside in a building that is almost off of campus entirely, a few streets away.
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The article says the site was formerly home to the campus mulch pit. Are they lying?
Nope, they're right. There wasn't much there before. The Robotics Institute had a shop/shed of some kind. And also the CMU PD. But not much else.
The building is pretty huge. The old police building was only part of the new footprint.
"Architectural success occurs when artful design bolsters functionality"
Oh, we're talking about the Gates Building? I thought you meant the Jobs building.
Oh, we're talking about the Gates Building? I thought you meant the Jobs building.
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Too bad it's an eyesore.
So much of modern architecture is an emperor-no-clothes situation, because no one has the guts to stand up and say it's ugly.
Or take the Scala center at MIT--a kid's fun-house building. It's very clever on one scale, but what will people in 50 years think? They'll think our generation was nuts.
These wild-idea-du-jour kinds of buildings will not endure the test of time.