September 26, 2008

Green Era Should Herald Smarter Buildings

By SCOTT CARLSON

It feels odd to look up at a Frank Gehry building, with its floating, cascading stainless-steel roof and angular conglomeration of shapes, and think: It's not radical enough.

That was the thought that bubbled up as I stood outside the new Lewis Library at Princeton University, and it was not about the aesthetics. The library is pleasing and playful, as one would expect of a Gehry structure. Whether it is worth $74-million for 87,000 square feet is another matter. The building was an

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