‘A torture experiment’: plan for almost windowless student megadorm raises alarm

An eccentric billionaire donated $200m to build an experimental block that will become the eighth densest neighborhood in the worldA “giant, windowless prison”, “Dormzilla”, a “torture experiment”: the internet has been weighing in on the construction plan for a student dormitory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since last Thursday, when an architect’s resignation letter went viral.The proposed building has become perhaps the world’s