MIT's Building 20

The way Stewart Brand described MIT's Building 20 in How Buildings Learn made it seem like a really neat place. It was a temporary building built during WWII to develop radar for the war effort. After the war it became the "magical incubator" with a variety of different kinds of activities happening inside. Student groups, small research projects, and people needing a hideout from the bustle of campus all found a place there. I thought I would look more into it but it looks like it was demolished in 1998.

It was replaced by Frank Gehry's Ray and Maria Stata Center:

facade.mit.edu

I'd still like to go and see this. It definitely looks like a place worth exploring.