also design the tele-tubbies house?

Smart move. I hope they remember to quickly fill it with rare animals.

"They told me I shouldn't build an aquarium in an earthquake zone, so I went ahead and did it anyway. That aquarium cracked, but I rebuilt it, and the next quake got it. The third aquarium got hit by a wall, fell over, and only then cracked. But the fourth aquarium, my lad, will one day be yours..."

Where's the SwampCastle icon, because enough management stories are about such enterprises?

Actually, it was the guy who gave the world "The Pompidou Centre".

There was a "Megastructures" documentary on the building of this a few weeks ago on either National Geographic or Discovery Science (I forget which). So much for a "sneek peek".

Hell yeah the Swamp castle icon gets my vote. :)

I saw the superb Megastructures program on Discovery about building the new academy.

It showed how they overcome the earthquake problem by joining all parts of the foundations together underground so the whole building will move as one piece in the event of an earthquake.

highly recommended TV if it's repeated (as with all Megastructures episodes!!).