Reply #40: I must say I saw this coming [View All]

Those big overhangs dump any incoming snow directly over the entrances, the window sills on the inward leaning walls are flat so that water running down the windows tends to pool, etc. If you look at the building in person and its roof lines and try to imagine the flow of water down it it's quite obvious that leaks were inevitable.

A building that cannot keep its interior dry is one that is fundamentally flawed. As for the interior, it's a disaster. Massive ceiling heights on the 1st floor must yield phenomenal heating costs, the 1st floor benches are intensely uncomfortable plywood, and there's lots of grim gray concrete everywhere. Yes, I understand it's supposed to invoke the building that was there before, but there's a reason people don't decorate their houses with gray concrete interiors: it's depressing.