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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glad she is so happy and the views in Santa Barbara must be glorious.

Not particularly jealous though - I like the kitchen and informal dining area but the formal dining area and living room does not work for me. The dining room has odd combination of art styles (rustic delft blue plates on wall with gray flowery wall paper, office vibe vinyl swivel dining chairs and odd fireplace that is top heavy and not quite balanced in proportions). Living room has weird lighting on ceiling And again odd mix of styles that don’t quite come together.

However, if GP and her kids are happy, that is great.

I am sure that it is more homey than the bizarre windowless dorm bunker tower that warren buffet is helping to build for UCSB. Why on earth anyone would come up with windowless dorm rooms at a campus surrounded by the ocean on three sides is completely beyond my comprehension. Suffice to say, not every innovative design idea is good.[/quote]

Yes sometimes people have much more money than common sense or human design sense …apart from no natural,light or fresh air in the dorm rooms - only two doors in the tower for fire escape purposes … no wonder the UCSB design review committee chair resigned …

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/nightmare-of-the-windowless-dorm-room

In 2016, Charlie Munger, the billionaire vice-chairman of Warren Buffett’s holding company, announced his intention to donate two hundred million dollars to the University of California, Santa Barbara, to be used to build a dormitory. There was “one huge catch,” as Munger, an amateur architect, put it: no windows.

Our design is clever,” Munger assured skeptics. “Our buildings are going to be efficient.” In addition to cutting costs and foiling potential defenestrations, his design would force students out of their sleeping cubbies and into communal spaces—with real sunlight—where, he said, they would engage with one another.
Last month, Munger’s plan was formally accepted by U.C.S.B. without apparent alteration: a nearly two-million-square-foot structure, eleven stories tall, that will house around forty-five hundred students in a hive of tiny bedrooms—the vast majority of which will indeed be windowless. Instead of the real thing, there will be Disney-inspired fake windows, of which Munger said, in an interview with Architectural Record, “We will give the students knobs, and they can have whatever light they want. Real windows don’t do that.” A consulting architect named Dennis McFadden subsequently announced his resignation from U.C.S.B.’s design-review committee. In a letter, which was later leaked, he wrote that “Charlie’s Vision” was “unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent and a human being.”
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