Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Sunday, July 08, 2007




We have a winner -- for the honor of America's Ugliest Building.

The design by Mayne's firm Morphosis [is that a kind of disease?], which was assisted by SmithGroup [DilbertSpell], already has won praise from such distant voices as the New York Times and England's Architectural Review.

But early reviews in-house weren't as kind.

Elevators stalled and temperatures veered from one extreme to the other depending on the time of day. Another complaint: The floor-to-ceiling windows overloaded cubicles with sunlight -- even though the perforated steel panels along the south-facing wall were supposed to filter glare while allowing in natural light that cuts down on electricity use.


That's okay -- it's only our money.

They're not impressed The Paper of Re-CORD praised it?

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