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  1. somebody says:

    Can’t be real.

  2. zen says:

    that real when it on fail blog….lol

  3. jackal says:

    architect fail.

    But builder win.

    ( really, who thinks placing a window diagonally in bricks is easy? ;)

    Maybe extra-fail for trying.

  4. Its a huge win for the guy that lives there, unique styling, go him i say!

    http://www.righthandgenius.wordpress.com

    ^ visit. comment. love.

  5. strictlyhetero says:

    “well Earl, I’d say she’s ’bout a half-bubble off level”

  6. Crypto-Askarian says:

    That picture is faked, cause if you look on the right window on the top, it seams the gravity isn’t right!

  7. Mihai says:

    What does gravity have to do with bricks cemented to each other?

  8. dbs says:

    This is not a FAIL.

    This is the MIT Stata center. It was designed by Frank Gehry. Google ‘mit stata center’ you’ll see plenty of details about it.

    The crooked windows and slanting walls are deliberate designs.

  9. Sigh says:

    Regarding gravity, the curtains are hanging at the same angle as the window. Unless they’re attached at top and bottom, which is entirely possible, they are not hanging properly.

    I looked at a gallery of pics of the Stata Center and none of them seem to include dingy white bricks like these. They’re all shiny and progressively built structures.

    I’d keep looking, but it’s just not that important an item on the to-do list.

  10. At least there is a building on each side to hold it up.

  11. plam says:

    This is not the Stata Center. I had an office in the Stata Center (http://patricklam.ca/gallery2/v/040312-stata/). It’s just fail.

    You can say many things about the Stata Center, but the windows were all level.

    • "reply" says:

      http://www.eecs.mit.edu/stata-link.html <—whether you had an office or not – which gives me pause because if you did, you wouldn’t have time to peruse the comments section of the failblog – this link has multiple pictures of said center, and none of them are in any way related to this one. But then again, you may not have an office there anymore precisely BECAUSE you spent too much time on failblog.

  12. Scott Haley says:

    Yeah. He meant to do that . Really.

  13. Someone says:

    “I’m gonna make an apartment where the windows look stupid.” FAIL.

  14. mikeytherhino says:

    This is what happens when you get the Illiegal aliens at $2.00 an hour to help you put your windows in.

    And you’ve been drinking all day.

    mikeytherhino.wordpress.com

  15. Matt Shafer says:

    You know…if EvilCarbon above put half as much energy into writing for his blog as he puts into spamming it on this site, it might have been updated more than once in the last three weeks…

  16. Sofar says:

    That’s not really Frank Gehry’s style. I don’t think a single one of his buildings involves bricks at all, it’s all stainless steel with that man.

    Could be fake, but it’s strange how on the right side of the window all the bricks are cut into shape and on the left side the wall is warped, except all the bricks are the right size. It’d be difficult to fake that, you’d have to redraw the bricks.

    Could be some imaginative repairs after an earthquake.

  17. Brandi says:

    I haven’t been on the MIT campus for a few years and immediately realized that it was the Stata Center.

    FAILblog FAIL.

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  19. The Racist says:

    wow you mean you remembered the building with the crooked windows for more than a couple years?
    you must have been valedictorian at MIT

  20. Sofar says:

    Wait a second, how is it not an architect fail just because it was built like that on purpose? It’s an awfully ugly building. The architect failed.

  21. plam says:

    No, this is not the Stata Center. There are no balconies like that at the Stata Center. While it does have brick, the brick is red, and all the windows are straight.

  22. @ #7 – dbs – Frank Gehry is (was?) being sued by MIT for the strata center because it’s poorly suited for the climate by leaking and providing dangerous shelves for ice to form and then drop.

    in other words, FAIL

  23. axelander says:

    Schmuck, he’s probably got a JOB, unlike you ya lazy prick.

  24. Dark says:

    Schmuch, I don’t think you do either. He seems smarter than you, mainly because only a moron would use an insult like that.

  25. heavyzobech says:

    This could have been done in Romania, no ? Looks like the old school architecture you can see in every town…

  26. Anonymous says:

    Evil Carbon – will you stfu? plugging yourself as an idiot in the comments doesn’t get you more links, it’d be nice if you actually thought more than 2 seconds before you posted

  27. MarkFL says:

    My first thought was that it was fake, but then I thought it might be the result of an earthquake — not imaginative repairs, as suggested by Sofar, but maybe no repairs.

  28. MarkFL says:

    There was plenty of disagreement about whether or not it was (a) real, or (b) the Stata Canter. Now, if I hadn’t read the thread, how could I have referenced Sofar’s earlier comment? Welcome to my dick, partyhead.

  29. danitheman says:

    made in russia, but still fake

  30. Anonymous says:

    Guys, this is a real picture of a real building somewhere in USSR. Trust me.

  31. The Racist says:

    hahah, so it’s not even the MIT building? #20 brandi is really a sharp one

  32. ReySquared says:

    I dunno, it would be better if it wasn’t as blurry then it would be easier to tell.
    And I think you guys are ALL dicks for getting so worked up over what building this is.
    Not a very good fail if it is real though, I’ve seen worse. er… better? fuck!

    @#33
    Welcome to the head, dick-party? XD

  33. jp09 says:

    photoshop job = FAIL

  34. Anonymous says:

    How you can you people spend this much time arguing over what building this is? It’s a fake. It is so obviously photoshopped, my 6 yr old cousin can tell. It’s a really half-arsed photoshop fake. And not even very interesting or funny.

  35. bob says:

    The bricks under the window are cut off. If it was photoshopped the bricks would be slanted as well.

    Epic Fail for those who think this is fake. E P I C FAIL

  36. Fenway Beer Man says:

    This is not the Stata Center. Only 2 people on here got it right. This is a building in Russia.

    BECAUSE IN SOVIET RUSSIA, WINDOW TILTS *YOU*

  37. J Mintuck says:

    It looks photochopped. I can tell as the curtains on the windows don’t respond right to gravity. IF it WAS real, then wouldn’t the curtains hang straight down like normal. I am sure of it.

  38. Jacob says:

    kinda creepy.

  39. what says:

    construction fail

  40. thirdwheel says:

    photoshop fail – as several people have said, if it was real, the curtains would be straight, but they are at the same angle as the rest of the window.

  41. rrr says:

    This is commie house from one of former USSR states. And believe me as I live in one – this might be no fake :) If you do a search you’ll find enormous wonders of architecture .. like stairs leading to nowhere, balconies without any doors or windows etc.

    Back then many buildings were built only by professional observers, but no builders. So if someone was lazy people just build everything as is.

  42. Porky says:

    Isn’t That The Apartment From Seinfeld?

  43. bostonian says:

    most definately real. its in boston. was a wicked expensive building built on M.I.T. campus



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