Gates Center for Computer Science debuts at CMU

Yeah, been walking around that thing for the past couple of years of Cocoaheads meetings on the CMU campus.

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.

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.

http://bit.ly/DQr0J

"Architectural success occurs when artful design bolsters functionality"

Oh, we're talking about the Gates Building? I thought you meant the Jobs building.