# Oddly shaped black building near Dulles (Washington, DC) Airport

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-shaped-black-building-near-dulles-washington-dc-airport/386816>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 5, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-shaped-black-building-near-dulles-washington-dc-airport/386816 "2007-01-05T14:44:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![groman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@groman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groman)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-shaped-black-building-near-dulles-washington-dc-airport/386816/41 "2007-01-08T09:16:21Z")

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[QUOTE=Sunspace]  
(brightly) Did you know that the straight line is obsolete?  
:: peers intently at the listener ::  
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Straight line? Where have you been? We’ve already also declared eulerian graphs and polynomial curves “so, like, last century, and stuff”.. 😉

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**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-shaped-black-building-near-dulles-washington-dc-airport/386816/42 "2007-01-08T11:07:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Rick]  
No you are both wrong. [Seattle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EMPSeattle.jpg) [Claims](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ExperienceMusicProject.jpg) [the prize.](http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/Experience%20Music%20Project.jpg)  
Apparently [Frank O. Geary](http://www.rangeweb.net/~cheyennearea/staff/wallace/seattle/pictures/final_bldg.jpg) [does not](http://corporateportal.ppg.com/NR/rdonlyres/1FE2A80D-07E5-4543-A48A-E25C0A2F72FE/0/emp.jpg)[own a](http://www.rangeweb.net/~cheyennearea/staff/wallace/seattle/pictures/final_bldg.jpg) [straightedge.](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.worldofstock.com/slides/AAB1462.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.worldofstock.com/closeups/AAB1462.php&h=333&w=500&sz=36&hl=en&sig2=UUIiT2AGzIPhJVs4nDBHNg&start=51&tbnid=-YOdcnzR6e3yzM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=130&ei=jX6fRbT2Jc3OJMiz6e8P&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dexperience%2Bmusic%2Bproject%26start%3D36%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN)  
The Seattle dopers want to know what they won.  
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I’ve seen that building from I-5 but never up close. I always thought from the highway it looked like someone spat out a wad of gum and designed a building after it.

From the pictures, I see I’m not wrong.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddly-shaped-black-building-near-dulles-washington-dc-airport/386816/43 "2007-01-08T11:38:56Z")

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What about [this twisted thing](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/Wfm_stata_center.jpg/300px-Wfm_stata_center.jpg)?

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