Do you really think I’m stupid enough to leave up hundreds of corrugated iron sheets before opening to the general public? No way! I designed the building like this. What kind of architect would I be if I accidentally left the Lindemann covered with construction material and then got too embarrassed to say anything about it? Who would do that?
Sure, the sheeting was useful during construction, but I can promise you that it was always a part of the plan. Besides, these white panels look so much better than a glass or brick facade. Why would anyone want a building with windows when you can have a giant white cube?
Yeah, and now that I’m looking at the building finished, I really like how it doesn’t fit in with any of the other buildings on Brown’s campus. It makes a statement, and that statement is “Wow, it looks like that?”
In the end, I think it was actually a pretty brilliant decision by me to cover the Lindemann with those protective iron panels. It’s kind of modernist, or postmodernist? Minimalist? Cubist? Well, whatever it is, it was a choice and definitely not an accident.