What is the ugliest building you've seen on a college campus?

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All of Binghamton University

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Anonymous wrote:So what is it about libraries? I haven't read every post but right off the bat it seems like a lot of these ugly buildings are libraries.

Sun is bad for books, so libraries tend not to have much glass.

- signed, I survived working at CRS in the Library of Congress’ Madison Building

I used to live on Capitol Hill, just off 4th and Penn SE and the nuttiest people, bar none as there are a LOT of options in that neighborhood, patronizing delis/restaurants on that strip are LOC employees.

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Anonymous wrote:The library at UMass Amherst is pretty rough on the eyes given the surrounding beauty of the Berkshires. It had such potential.

https://www.library.umass.edu/about-the-libraries/visiting/

That, and it wasn’t designed to take the weight of lots of books, so it’s partly empty.

Whoa, anyone sued for that design flaw?

That campus just screams '50s/60s/70s baby boom architecture. Just build it to hold them, aesthetics do not matter.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what is it about libraries? I haven't read every post but right off the bat it seems like a lot of these ugly buildings are libraries.

Sun is bad for books, so libraries tend not to have much glass.

- signed, I survived working at CRS in the Library of Congress’ Madison Building

I used to live on Capitol Hill, just off 4th and Penn SE and the nuttiest people, bar none as there are a LOT of options in that neighborhood, patronizing delis/restaurants on that strip are LOC employees.

I prefer “quirky” but anyway you’re OT.

Combine few windows with a low college construction budget and you’re looking at a a concrete monstrosity for a library.

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Anonymous wrote:All of Binghamton University

absolutely

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Foisie Innovation Studio at WPI

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What’s with all the special red bricks at RPI? It just gives the campus a uniform feel which, combined with the weather on the day DC toured, was pretty depressing.