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...than $15-million, got told by the University brass that it wasn't good enough, and went and raised mother cool three million for the addition needed so desperately to alleviate their cramped space. Now the result of all that hard work is almost completed officials say the new Sackler museum, named after the man who chipped in seven million dollars for the project, will open next year but once again Fogg officials may be thwarted in their grand plans...
Architect James Stirling designed the Fogg extension formally known as the Arthur M. Sackler Museum--so that the building can function with or without the connector...
Construction on the Sackler Museum started in 1972, but the issue of the connector became prominent only last year, when the University presented the idea to the community...
October 31--Christo, now a visiting professor in the VES Department, joins the contest with a design for a building resembling a five-story roll of paper towelling. The Corporation approves his plan and hires construction workers. "It will go so nicely with the Sackler Wing of the Fogg," exults...
...decided to test (once again) our thresholds of pain. As a child, I used to ask my mother where ugly buildings came from. Tenderly, she would reply that they had always been there; it was God's way of revealing the imperfection of the temporal world. The building of Sackler Hall lays to rest another one of my childhood beliefs...