Posted
9:47 AM
by Gene
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?