97-year-old billionaire and amateur-architect designs a nearly windowless mega-dormitory for 4500 students

'The dormitory's nine identical residential floors would be organized into eight 'houses' with eight 'suites' (shown here) with eight bedrooms. | Credit: Courtesy' — The Independent

Charles Munger, a '97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect' gave $200 million to the University of California Santa Barbara on one condition: that no one could change his blueprints for a '11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms,' reports The Independent. — Read the rest