Bostonist was startled last week when the Cambridge Chronicle published an article listing the ten ugliest buildings In Cambridge. Topping the list was the new Stata Center at MIT, designed by world-renowed modernist architect Frank Gehry. Apparently, we weren't the only ones taken back by this nudge to the experimental and visually stimulating building placed in the center of the otherwise drab industrial park. This past week, the Chronicle reported on a class of preschoolers who were up in arms about this pick!
The preschoolers, from the Peabody School in Cambridge, had recently visited the Stata and are now demanding answers as to why the building received such a poor honor. Four-year-old Olivis Blaufuss was downright confused why anyone would think the building was so ugly. To her, it was just "silly." One of the most outraged was four-year-old Max Lyman: He liked the building because "it was shiny...my eyes were hurting." (Bostonist predicts a wave of architectural critics emerging from North Cambridge neighborhood in about 20 years.)
Contributed by Jesse Kanson-Benanav.
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