Date uploaded: 2021-11-02 19:11:51
Dormzilla. A ship on land. An experiment. These are some of the labels being levied on Munger Hall, a planned dormitory at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The massive 11-story, 1.68 million-square-foot building, which billionaire investor Charlie Munger has pledged $200 million toward, would house more than 4,500 students in a structure with few windows and two entrances.
As a vice chairman at Berkshire Hathaway, Munger is well-respected for his business acumen. But he's getting some pushback on his prowess as an amateur architect.
“I have spent years on this project working with very good architects and also with campus planners and chancellors and everybody else,” he said of UCSB's $1.5 billion project.
"It’s not some crazy idea of a donor. This has been worked out with the university.”
But Los Angeles architect Dennis McFadden, a longtime consultant to the university resigned last month over the project, calling the building "destructive" and "unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent and a human being.”
The $1.5 billion project "is a social and psychological experiment with an unknown impact on the lives and personal development of" students, McFadden said in the letter.
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