It is light and airy, and for now has been given over to a mishmash of modern and contemporary sculpture chosen from Yale's collection by seven Yale graduate and undergraduate students.
At 16 stories, it will tower over the mishmash of town houses and warehouses that line the cobblestone street east of the site.
In 2012, its mishmash façade was cleaned up and painted over with a colourful mural when it was taken over by Two Boots Pizza, a New York franchise with unorthodox pizzas with ingredients like creole chicken and jalapeño pesto.
Written in a mishmash of typefaces, its chapters alternately sprawling over 60 or 70 pages or just a couple of lines, "Imperial" leaps back and forth in time and geography like a maddened ping-pong ball.
According to an internal report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the mishmash of walls and fences would take over three years and $21.6 billion to complete.
The place is not unlike any student flat the world over, with its mishmash of furniture, piles of washing-up, brightly painted walls and the odd political poster, plus budget artistic touches such as the seashells that hang from the bathroom ceiling.
Standing in front of the jurors, Mr. Keker told them that the prosecution had offered a "mishmash of information that stretches over a month, months, and none of it is particularly clear notice of anything," about whether Mr. Quattrone had been provided with adequate information about the investigations before sending the e-mail message.
It is perhaps appropriate that Hollywood's centenary is being marked by James Cameron's Avatar, the most expensive film ever, the most profitable film ever, made in 3-D, its story a mishmash of borrowings from all over, and almost every frame of it indebted to an army of special effects technicians.
In a small, dark tent with overhead projections, Kid Koala, the turntablist, manipulated watery recorded phrases over a kaleidoscopic funk mishmash.
The staging is over the top and a mishmash of ideas, but at times intriguing.
