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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by falcor84 on Friday October 29, 2021 @10:49AM (#29039128)
Not to dispute any of your arguments, I'm really surprised at your referring to the consideration of whether to accept a gift of $200M as "save a few bucks".
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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by tclancy on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:07AM (#29039350)
It's $200 million in your pocket at a cost of $1.3 billion out.
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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by allknowingfrog on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:37AM (#29039740)
I completely missed that in my first pass. This crazy donor negotiated absolutely authority over the design by covering less than 20% of the cost. That's both impressive and alarming.
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Re:Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm by PeterisP on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:31AM (#29039669)
If someone is donating 15% of project costs but with strings attached that make the project more than 15% worse (which arguably might be the case here), then that's not a good deal and should be rejected.
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