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Crazy Building

This mess is the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas, a hospital intended to treat those with Alzheimer, Huntington, Parkinson and ALS diseases. The architect himself describes the building as comforting, but others suggest that patients with those afflictions might find the unusual shapes to be disorienting.

Good thing they don't have tornados in Las Vegas, because this building looks like it's been through one.

posted on Mar 10, 2012 9:05 PM ()

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Make a video if you go there an put it on youtube... I'm going there now to see if anybody did it already, but the people I follow who do that sort of thing usually explore abandoned building.

comment by jjoohhnn on Mar 11, 2012 5:21 PM ()

How bizarre. Kind of creepy, too. And where is the door?

comment by boots586 on Mar 11, 2012 3:32 PM ()

I think the back side of it, those white rectangles, is more conventional. I'll see when I go there.

reply by troutbend on Mar 12, 2012 9:56 AM ()

very very strange. I wonder what it looks like inside.

comment by kristilyn3 on Mar 11, 2012 12:03 PM ()

Hopefully they didn't hire that architect to do the interiors.

reply by troutbend on Mar 12, 2012 9:57 AM ()

oh!I loved it.It is so great and what a wonderful idea.

comment by fredo on Mar 11, 2012 10:12 AM ()

It's distinctive, that's for sure.

reply by troutbend on Mar 12, 2012 9:59 AM ()

Just an alternative thought--maybe to delusional people it looks fine!

comment by greatmartin on Mar 11, 2012 9:18 AM ()

Oh, that's it! We should have thought of that.

reply by troutbend on Mar 12, 2012 9:55 AM ()

A really bad idea, particularly for people who might have problems with reality. I wonder if the inner architecture is as lopsided as the exterior. Moreover, one of the things done in wards or homes with Alzheimer patients, is to put something they are totally familiar with on the door of their rooms. This building seems to ignore the real problems of the mentally challenged in favor of the architect's ego, and the hospital board that okayed this design should live in it.

comment by tealstar on Mar 11, 2012 7:50 AM ()

I shudder to think what is going on inside there design-wise.

reply by troutbend on Mar 11, 2012 8:21 AM ()

It looks like he had nightmares when he drew it. I think he carried being
different too far and especially for patients with delusions and hallucinations.

comment by elderjane on Mar 11, 2012 6:31 AM ()

I think he started to build his little model, got frustrated late at night trying to get it done for approval and wadded it up. Got up the next morning and said 'No time to fix it, I'll just foist this off on them' and then surprise, surprise, the idiots chose it.

reply by troutbend on Mar 11, 2012 8:19 AM ()

Talk about confusing, which is not the feeling I'd want walking into a health care facility, if I could find the front door. Looks like a magic mirror fun house.

comment by marta on Mar 11, 2012 12:58 AM ()

The Cleveland Clinic is affiliated with this facility, and I don't know if they were in on the design conferences, but a person would think they'd have more sense.

reply by troutbend on Mar 11, 2012 8:24 AM ()

Is this a photo of a real building? Looks like it's in the middle of demolition.

comment by nittineedles on Mar 10, 2012 11:25 PM ()

Hard to believe, isn't it? Next time we get a chance I'm going to go inside it to see what it feels like.

reply by troutbend on Mar 11, 2012 8:16 AM ()

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