An architectural web site has named MIT’s Simmons Corridor the ugliest constructing within the U.S.
Architectural Rebellion, a so-called “people’s movement against the continued uglification of our cities,” just lately named Simmons Corridor in Cambridge the winner of its inaugural “Aesthetic Atrocity Award,” which it described as “an annual dishonor given to the ugliest new building in the United States.”
Based on MIT’s web site, the 10-story undergraduate dormitory opened in 2002. It was designed by architect Steven Holl and has received a number of awards for its architectural options.
Runners-up for the award included the San Francisco Federal Constructing, The Ascent in Kentucky and 41 Cooper Sq. in New York. The web site says the “Aesthetic Atrocity Award” might be introduced on the “Beauty and Ugliness in Architecture” convention in Oslo, Norway, subsequent month.
NBC reached out to MIT’s press workplace for remark, however has but to listen to again.
