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Dec 30, 2006

Cleveland, OH

Buildings by Frank Gehry, with their glittering titanium surfaces and deformed shapes,
always attract photographers.

But it is actually hard to take a picture of Peter B. Lewis Building, the home of CWRU School of Management, in the context of its campus.

Modern buildings are born to be beholded with admiration and leave no room for harmonious
relationship with their surroundings if most are from 19th or early 20th century.

When Libeskind was given an opportunity to design Art Museum for Denver, he conglomerated part of downtown to form a semi-local climate for his modern species.

But Peter B. Lewis Building was built to squeeze in the old campus. Any panorama photo cannot avoid style clash.

And probably the most funny fact is:

In its first winter, snow and ice have been sliding off the long, sloping, stainless-steel roof,
bombarding the sidewalk below


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