MIT is suing Gehry for the poorly designed university building

Boston - The prestigious American university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is suing renowned architect Frank O. Gehry for allegedly poorly designed building into which it invested millions of dollars. The originally designed building named Stata Center from 2004, which vaguely resembles Prague's Dancing House, according to the AP agency, is cracking in several places and water is leaking due to poorly designed drainage.
MIT reportedly invested over 315 million dollars (5.8 billion CZK) into the building, which today houses its cybernetics laboratory among other things. Of that, 15 million dollars were paid to Gehry, while the rest went to the American branch of the Scandinavian construction giant Skanska.
The school claims that shortly after the construction work was completed in 2004, the walls of the outdoor amphitheater, which is part of the Stata Center, began to crack - allegedly due to poorly designed drainage. It is said to also cause the walls of the entire building to become damp. Additionally, frozen snow supposedly falls from the protruding decorative window frames in winter onto places that block emergency exits from the building.
"Gehry failed to meet his obligations by providing inadequate designs and drawings," the lawsuit claims. According to the AP, Gehry and his firm based in Los Angeles have not yet commented on the lawsuit.
Blame for the situation is also being placed on Gehry by Paul Hewins, the head of the local branch of Skanska, who states that these were definitely not mistakes made during construction. Skanska allegedly warned Gehry prior to construction that there were mistakes in the design, but the architect ignored it.
The 78-year-old American architect Frank Owen Gehry was born in Toronto, Canada, and is primarily known as the author of formally expressive buildings. Among his most famous works are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which has been completed for ten years this year, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Along with Vlad Milunić, he contributed to the project of Prague's Dancing House, which is regularly ranked by expert publications among the best Czech buildings of the last decade.