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eppur_se_muova

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5. Big wooden trusses, lots of glass, lots of open space --- not much seating capacity in any of the pictures.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:50 AM

Oct 2

I'm often convinced that architects are the wrong people to be planning buildings. They go for 'visual statements' rather than functional machinery for living and working.

That thing's going to be an absolute bastard to heat and cool.

10 years from now, as the concrete flakes and cracks off, the Science Dept. will be cursing the administration which saddled them with a white elephant.

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