January 26, 2001
Dazzling Designs, at a Price
Colleges bank on the publicity and prestige a star architect will bring, but critics see cost overruns, poor planning, and dubious priorities
Dan Seib, sitting in a trailer guarding a construction site at Case Western Reserve University, snatches up a pad of yellow legal paper and bends it into an undulated shape. This, he says, is a curtain of stainless steel that will ripple and flow over the lumbering concrete mass sitting just outside his window.
Mr. Seib, the project manager here, explains that every part of the building, including the free-flowing steel, is plotted by and checked against computer models used to design
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