97-year-old billionaire and amateur-architect designs a nearly windowless mega-dormitory for 4500 students
"The dormitory's nine identical residential floors would be organized into eight "houses" with eight "suites" (shown here) with eight bedrooms. | Credit: Courtesy" The Independent
Charles Munger, a "97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect" gave $200 million to the University of California Santa Barbara on one condition: that no one could change his blueprints for a "11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms," reports The Independent. — Read the rest
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