Funny, it looks just like all the college buildings I attended in the 70's.
If the preservationists like the style so much, I'm sure there are plenty of other places they can go stare at.
Posted on 11/15/2007 8:19:20 PM PST by Lorianne
Funny, it looks just like all the college buildings I attended in the 70's.
If the preservationists like the style so much, I'm sure there are plenty of other places they can go stare at.
BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE ... what puff, nonsense & ugliness!
I really, really hate these Internation Style buildings.
It looks like every State University of New York campus.
Looks like nothing so much as a military bunker. Needs artillery—incoming.
All the universities and penitentiaries were built at the same time in the 60’s and 70’s...and designed by the same architects. ;)
It looks like someplace you’d go for Carousel when your Lifeclock is blinking.
Same here, funny, the “Congregation” has decided that the building can be demolished and then replaced with more valuable office space...
And “wind swept”?
Geez, the writer’s style is as ungraceful as that neo gothic pile of prefabed concrete...
Agreed. If it were ugly but had some redeeming architectural or historic value, like certain ugly Victorian buildings, it might be worth saving. But it doesn’t. And the quality of construction of these buildings is abominable.
My brother went to school at a university designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. There were few windows, and those that existed were filled with dark glass so the light inside was always gray. It was always surprising to emerge from the gloom and find that the sun was shining, because it didn’t look that way from inside. Being there was like being in the bowels of the Ljubjanka; one became filled with fear and desperation. The Stalinist reference must have inspired the professors in their Marxist-Leninism. Almost from the moment it was erected, this campus showed the pointlessness of its construction and began to leak, creak, and fall down.
I hate being the subject of some architect’s social experimentation and certainly object to paying for the experience.
Bulldoze the damned thing.
Title had me thinking this was an article about hillary
Yep. That corner thingy would make a dandy machine gun nest. I get a lot of feelings glancing at this beast but "reverent" isn't one of them.
Our city has a building just like this.
It’s juvey hall and local jail.
Is it insured? (Hint, hint).
More and more, people don’t have control over their property. Kelo says that the government can take it away from you and sell to private firms, and in this case, a quasi-governmental group tells a church that they can’t get rid of a building that they can no longer afford. That’s just not right. If the preservationist group wants to keep the ugly building, then they should buy it at market value from the church IF the church wants to sell to them.
Looks like the dorm I lived in in college.
As well as the federal court building here.
What is THAT ?....pillbox architecture ?...looks like it belongs on the Maginot Line
Looks like Brutalism was designed to be a gift that kept on giving. Just hope the preservation perps don't try the environmental-impact-to-pigeons habitat angle.
From the looks of that building, Cossutta studied at the B. U. (BUTT UGLY) School of Architecture.
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