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Possible Adds[edit]

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The design of the building was completely redone, when the MIT administration decided to add a two-story underground parking garage, making three below ground levels. Scuttlebutt around the MIT Campus, is that this added $100 million to the cost, and diverted funds from a planned upgrade of the Central Power Plant and it's distribution system, which would have lowered their operating costs. The Central Power Plant is among the most sophisticated in the world, using co-generation to produce electricity and steam, and the steam to produce cooling water. Discussion of this from citations would be a good add to the article.
MIT considered several other architects, and had preliminary plans from at least one other firm, that was much more in keeping with the usual boxy functionalism of MIT's buildings. Documenting this would be hard, but would be a fascinating add to the article. Ex-President Vest has spoken publicly several times on being the tie-breaking vote. Quite possible that one or more of these were videotaped, and are on the web somewhere inside *.mit.edu.
Add the other occupants of the Stata Center. E.g. the state of the art child care facility
Describe the student street, and it's occupants and uses.
Describe the multi-level exterior terraces.
Careful readings of available sources would allow quality additions to this article. They include:
- Joyce's, Mitchell's, and Silber's books. The bibliographies (Joyce does not have one, the others might) in these books, could provide more source material.
- Tech Talk, and The Tech - the administration and chief student newspapers at MIT.
- The reviews in the architectural and engineering journals.
- There have to be others!

Your's for serious scholarship, authoring, and editing. Lentower 01:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Took several images at the Stata Center recently, but most aren't the straight-on/front-of-building kind of shot, so I'll defer to other editors on this page regarding which/whether to include: category here. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 20:53, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]