(Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Anyone who's been on a campus tour knows how universities like to showcase new buildings. Students and their families expect the latest and greatest facilities, and the competition among institutions has resulted in a sort of construction arms race.

Enter MIT, which certainly has caught people's attention. Its new Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences is, well, unique. Some might call it odd. The architect told the New York Times that it "looks like a party of drunken robots got together to celebrate." And that, I assume, is a good thing.

I give MIT credit for pushing the envelope on this one. After all, they're supposed to be experimental and forward-looking. Still, I'm no architecture critic, but only one phrase comes to mind: ugly as sin.

Take a closer look and judge for yourself.

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