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Originally Posted by ajaxean
Yeah, I already explained this way back in the thread. I went to Penn and am horrified and disgusted by the billions of dollars they've spent putting up hideously ugly buildings which make the campus environment terrible and ruin the skyline of the city. That's my agenda, it's not a secret.
WHAT?! Do you know anything about Philadelphia? This building isn't "deep in Penn's campus". It's at the edge of West Philadelphia, overlooking the Schuylkill River. It's massive and can be seen from many parts of the city as well as from I-76. Tens of thousands of people will see this building on a daily basis, and thousands will work in and around it. AND, it's going to be in the skyline for the next 50+ years. That literally means that many, many millions of people will interact with this building over its lifetime. It's worth caring about.
It's an obsession because they're spending $1.5 BILLION dollars on this hulking piece of crap. And they spent over $700 million on the Frankenstein-looking Perelman Center. Penn Medicine just keeps dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into buildings which are both ugly on the outside and confusing on the inside. I find it genuinely outrageous that Penn can keep making the same terrible billion-dollar mistakes over and over while everyone else just shrugs their shoulders.
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OK, but you understand you don't sound like an alumnus who is concerned with design and costs? You sound like a pissy teenager who didn't get the xbox game he wanted for Christmas and can't let go of it. What are you hoping to accomplish? Everyone now knows that ajaxean on skyscraperpage.com is not a fan of this particular project. We get it. You can move on with your life.