[1323] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Random facts and opinions about the Stata center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy H. Brown)
Fri Jun 28 17:49:53 2002
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 17:48:19 -0400
From: "Jeremy H. Brown" <jhbrown@ai.mit.edu>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
On Wednesday, there was a talk on and a tour of the Stata center.
Here are some things that were mentioned in the talk, and some random
commentary from yours truly.
1) The entire thing will be building 32. From now on, you never need
say "Stata" again.
2) Of 700,000 square feet, about 400,000 will go to
AI/LCS/LIDS/etc. --- labs, in other words --- and the rest will go
to MIT community facilities such as child care, a dining hall
(nominally to stay open until 2am), and a giant "student street"
space the size of 15 lobby 10s.
3) (Opinion:) The "Student Street" is an inane name. But it has cool,
swoopy staircases sailing through it, so I propose we call it the
"Zocalo" after Babylon 5's big bazaar.
4) The "crystal ball" on the entryway in the models will not appear on
the real building, saving us a couple million.
5) Ditto for a random piece of artwork over the child care center.
6) However, "the whistle", a random piece of artwork sticking out of
the middle of a short buildingish thing on the central plaza, will,
in fact, appear. (Presumably this will cost us a couple million.)
7) I am told that although half of the building is glass and
skylights, new technology will prevent them from leaking a la lobby
34.
8) They're trying to get a pub put in. (Hooray!)
Jeremy
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