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fabrisse ([personal profile] fabrisse) wrote2010-03-26 01:26 pm
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There'll be a Frank Gehry building in Washington

I'm beginning to think he's stalking me.

Seriously, I make a couple of friends who work at MIT, and the next thing you know, Stata Center. I have to move to LA to be with my family, Disney Hall. The Professor gets a job at Bard; suddenly, Gehry's doing their Arts Center. I visit Las Vegas just once, and now he's built something there, too.

I've had nightmares about being forced to live in Gehry buildings. The first time I went to Disney Hall, I had the unsettling experience of being pulled back from a plate glass window by my mother. Mr. Gehry decided that EXIT signs with backs to them wouldn't look right, so the exit sign reflected directly into a plate glass window. With the reversal of a back, it looked like the exit was through the window.

Anyway, I know this parcel of land. I know the buildings that are currently on it are far from inspired, but it's still a really bad idea. Plus, four acres for Eisenhower? Seriously? I thought that's what Presidential libraries were for.

[/making it all about me]

[identity profile] bibliothekara.livejournal.com 2010-03-27 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Somewhat. It's the Peter Lewis Science Library, on Washington Road in Princeton, NJ. AKA, across from Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital on House. Qui est actually Frist Campus Center.

(And Lewis has apparently absorbed all the science libraries. Which I do not approve of.)

[identity profile] fabrisse.livejournal.com 2010-03-27 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's better than Stata. That's truly damning with faint praise, I know.