Motleycrew's comment that the skybridge is the "absolute best thing" about this project resonates.  At least we know that it's well designed for its purpose and looks OK to boot.  As to the structures themselves, who knows?  Darling states that "UO officials traveled to Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford to visit other new science buildings." To what avail? Outside appearance? If path breaking research is really an aim of this venture, it would seem that form should follow function not the other way around.  Remember the disastrous wide-span Onyx Bridge that was supposed to house highly sensitive tremor recording equipment but instead fell prey to uncontrollable bouncing with every passing truck? For all we know, the ostentatious (incompatible?) towers shown here may actually hinder rather than facilitate  scientific advances and in the longer run do little to promote the U of O.  Just asking.