There's a reason whenever you go on the website to look at a NY school, that the only pictures you ever see are closeup photos of pleasantly diverse students sitting in the "quad" (as every plaza seems to be called in college).
Posted on 11/15/2007 8:19:20 PM PST by Lorianne
Plus it has a whole bank of air-raid sirens!
Fine. If this bunch likes it so much, then they can cough up some cash and buy the church out.
If there is a "Soviet school of architecture", this one fits.
It's about as appealing as Her Heinous' rear end! :)
- John
The NOI should by it and say it represents the Mother Ship.
There's a reason whenever you go on the website to look at a NY school, that the only pictures you ever see are closeup photos of pleasantly diverse students sitting in the "quad" (as every plaza seems to be called in college).
Sonoma State University (local to us here in Northern Cal) has several buildings in the “brutalism” style, and they are the ugliest damn things you’ve ever seen. They look like Soviet prisons. The only thing that makes the campus attractive is the very nice landscaping and the new Charlies Schultz library, which is quite nice. But those brutalist buildings ... ugh!
Libraries, prisons and German pillboxes....
Reminds me of a large version of a Japanese bunker on Iwo Jima. Give it to the Marines.
LOL!!! That was one of the worse movies I’ve ever watched twice! ;o)
Hey, I went there.
Hmmm.
I think I’ve seen similar buildings in my books on fortifications, specifically, Hitler’s Atlantic Wall. And Flak Towers. It kinda looks like one of those, too.
Knock it down. If you can.
As a southern California high school junior in 1965, I decided to become an architect. At that time, California had only three accredited schools of architecture: Cal Berkeley, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and USC (Stanford's was unaccredited--go figure). I applied and was accepted to all three and visited each.
I decided that a city boy like me wouldn't enjoy what I perceived as the cow-town atmosphere of San Luis Obispo, so I ruled that out.
Berkeley was in the middle of its convulsive Free Speech movement, and it appeared Gov. Reagan might just shut down the whole place. Equally offputting to me, though, was the architecture at Berkeley's School of Architecture. All the pipes and ducts were exposed--it was truly ugly. If Berkeley was going to be open, I didn't care for what they were pushing.
That left SC, and I had a state scholarship, so finances weren't an issue (tuition then was $1,500 annually, a far cry from today's $30,000). The irony is that architect IM Pei's Graduate School of Business was being constructed then, an eight-story concrete behemoth. I well remember the constant cacaphony as they used jackhammers to chip the concrete sides, all the way up. On a campus of brick, it could not possibly have been more out-of-context.
The upshot, in case you're interested, was this. Berkeley and Reagan kept at it, and of course the lunatics continue to run the asylum. Had I gone to SLO, I have no doubt I'b be an architect today, because that was a fine school. Unfortunately, although SC's professional schools have a well-earned reputation for excellence, the architecture school at that time was being completely mismanaged. As proof: of the 210 students who entered with me in the fall of 1966, exactly two became architects.
The final irony is that I switched to the Business School and ended up in Pei's beast after all.
Boston City Hall, for example. Both the world's ugliest building, and a perfect example of "urban renewal" gone bad.
They razed an entire neighborhood, the West End, and a bunch of good ol' fashioned, red-blooded burlesque houses to make this piece of merde.
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