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Billionaire Donates $200 Million to Design Dorm with Windowless Rooms; Architect Resigns in Protest
The plans shown do not meet building code egress requirements. Every sleeping room must have direct escape to outdoors. (Ever see a hotel room without a window?) CA building code states:
I heard they are going to replace all the water fountains with Brawndo dispensers!
Customers have "beautiful" ideas but no idea of how to make it real (model making, testing, prototyping, drawing, requestioning, etc), at the end architects and designers spend more time doing education than working on projects... And when power and money comes into the the recipe it's the end of the game. I would like to see the constructed building just to see it blown away after the students refuses to live in it. Unfortunately for the planet we need to make it blow before anyone could save it... or at least tries.
I refuse to work for a company that I can't sit near a window, I got an education and worked hard to live well, not to simply exist in a room with no nature, sunlight, view of the world. If the choice was to get an education and live in that room or not get an education, I would choose no education.
If you know a better way to disguise a human organ farm I'd like to see it.
This proves it, money, stupidity rule the world!
It has been quite a long time since mr. Munger attended college one can see.
How many students can't study if a single student throws a party on any of the 8+ floors?
Surely there must be building regulations to prevent this?!
I see no air-vent options anywhere (maybe I overlook it because it's so tiny)
The smell and noise must be horrible when all students are cramped in this box.
If Covid learned us (/me) anything it is the importance of fresh air and to be able to open a window.
Please offer mr. McFadden a new job asap!
He seems to deserve it.
The board that approved this trash should get the boot. This horrid!If I were a student I would never stay in that death trap. My mind is blown! This is again another multiverse trick.
i think its fair to say Mr. Munger is not very romantic, but definitely very very dim. Sarcasm aside. hotels and hostels without widows do exist and I have stayed in some as part of travelling to factories and trade fairs around Europe. A room without windows is okay for a short stay, especially with private bathrooms and good lounge and communal areas in the hotel where you can work and socialise. Also, in some cases the rooms are built in renovated industrial or office buildings so there was already a large floor space but limited windows and outer wall areas. Done right and for the right purpose (short stays) a room without windows can work. All that said, as many have pointed out in the comments, this building can surely not live up to basic fire safety laws? But then maybe this is another thing the US law system is willing to ignore when a billionaire is footing the bill. I have huge respect and admiration for the architect for quitting, it was the Chancellor who should be out of a job. I hope this building never gets built. If it does, it should be turned into a prison for tax evading billionaires and millionaires. Then the name of the building really fits its purpose.
What kind of person would want their name attached to a building that is destined to be loathed by all who subsist in it? Could Mr 2.3B Munger really not spring for something beautiful? Ridiculous.
8 people sharing 1 bathroom? yikes
Does this building live up to building safety standards? It would be interesting to see the rest of the plans. By going on McFaddens letter it seems like a nightmare in case of a fire, too many people, too few exits. Four and a half thousand people sharing eight stairwells. A population half the size of my childhood suburbs, with a building footprint that is barely larger than my high-school.
I doubt that Mungers "admired as among the best" will come true. Even a luxury shanty town is a shanty town in the end.
The design is claustrophobic at best. I found some enlargement photos and some of the rooms are literally at the end of a maze. It was apparently compared to a cruise ship, but the difference is that on a cruise ship you stay 7 days on average. Really stupid comparison. I feel sorry for the campus and the students.