s/o Most Beautiful College Campuses

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Anonymous wrote:In my view, few campuses are as profoundly impressive as UVA’s and William & Mary’s.

You have a very limited view. Have you ever ventured outside of Virginia?

NP. I've lived all over the country, and have only been in VA for a few years, and find UVA and William and Mary to be absolutely gorgeous. And impressive.

Why are you (and many others here) so threatened by the fact that people *gasp* like the public universities in Virginia? What's up with that?

I literally couldn’t care less about Virginia public universities but I find it odd that somebody can’t appreciate the beauty of campuses outside of the colonial architecture spectrum.....seems limited.

Gosh, I guess you are more intelligent than Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/pictures/ekkf45i/university-of-virginia-charlottesville-va/#11cdfd24197c

Intelligent? You’re an idiot.

would you prefer Great Value Colleges? UVA is often listed as no. 1 by ranking services. I guess you assume they are all idiots https://news.virginia.edu/content/accolades-uva-again-ranked-beautiful-college-list

What are the few colleges that are as "profoundly impressive"? Since you did say you have been to colleges outside of VA. Surely, you can name a few.

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THE has them ranked quite low. Are they idiots?

I’m not disputing their “rank”, but asking you what are some of the other “profoundly impressive” college campuses. Surely you can think of a few others. Right?

You’re arguing with a different poster. I’m merely pointing out that to disagree with a ranking has nothing to do with someone’s intelligence. If Forbes likes a particular campus anyone can disagree without it being a question of their intelligence. It was a stupid comment. That said, I think UVA is beautiful. W&M too. (Though I think Richmond has them both beat.)

And you're arguing with a different poster. I didn't make that comment. I was just asking for OTHER college campuses beyond VA. No need to get fixated on them. Again.

You’re fixated on them, right?

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Anonymous wrote:In my view, few campuses are as profoundly impressive as UVA’s and William & Mary’s.

You have a very limited view. Have you ever ventured outside of Virginia?

NP. I've lived all over the country, and have only been in VA for a few years, and find UVA and William and Mary to be absolutely gorgeous. And impressive.

Why are you (and many others here) so threatened by the fact that people *gasp* like the public universities in Virginia? What's up with that?

I literally couldn’t care less about Virginia public universities but I find it odd that somebody can’t appreciate the beauty of campuses outside of the colonial architecture spectrum.....seems limited.

The never said that, bro. And are you sure that UVA is colonial architecture?

Early buildings built by slave labor.

I think there are different posters here, which may be causing confusion. Colonial architecture is not a precise style. It is the architecture of the mother country adapted to the colony. William & Mary's oldest buildings could certainly be characterized as colonial. UVA was founded after independence, so you could still try to apply that term, but it is really early republic and Jefferson's influences were classical (Roman, Greek) and Palladio. I would call it neoclassical. Jefferson didn't use the same materials or building methods, clearly, as the Romans. The Rotunda is really a 1/3rd model of the Pantheon. William & Mary's later buildings are probably best described as Georgian or neo-Georgian. Both UVA and William & Mary started building in the modern style in the 1950s-1970s. I don't think either school did it very well at all. The building came off as uninspired and half-baked. They've both been trying to fix it ever since.

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Pepperdine

UC Boulder

Air Force Academy

University of Hawaii

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University of Lynchburg and Elon are beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:In my view, few campuses are as profoundly impressive as UVA’s and William & Mary’s.

You have a very limited view. Have you ever ventured outside of Virginia?

NP. I've lived all over the country, and have only been in VA for a few years, and find UVA and William and Mary to be absolutely gorgeous. And impressive.

Why are you (and many others here) so threatened by the fact that people *gasp* like the public universities in Virginia? What's up with that?

I literally couldn’t care less about Virginia public universities but I find it odd that somebody can’t appreciate the beauty of campuses outside of the colonial architecture spectrum.....seems limited.

Gosh, I guess you are more intelligent than Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/pictures/ekkf45i/university-of-virginia-charlottesville-va/#11cdfd24197c

Intelligent? You’re an idiot.

would you prefer Great Value Colleges? UVA is often listed as no. 1 by ranking services. I guess you assume they are all idiots https://news.virginia.edu/content/accolades-uva-again-ranked-beautiful-college-list

What are the few colleges that are as "profoundly impressive"? Since you did say you have been to colleges outside of VA. Surely, you can name a few.

Well?

THE has them ranked quite low. Are they idiots?

I’m not disputing their “rank”, but asking you what are some of the other “profoundly impressive” college campuses. Surely you can think of a few others. Right?

You’re arguing with a different poster. I’m merely pointing out that to disagree with a ranking has nothing to do with someone’s intelligence. If Forbes likes a particular campus anyone can disagree without it being a question of their intelligence. It was a stupid comment. That said, I think UVA is beautiful. W&M too. (Though I think Richmond has them both beat.)

Richmond is certainly more consistent than UVA or W&M. For some reason they are often overlooked in these rankings. Richmond always incorporated Gothic elements into buildings while UVA and W&M were off building some ugly modern buildings. (I'm not at all opposed to modern, but it can be tough to integrate with traditional buildings and a bad modern building is usually worse than a bad traditional buildings.) Even the Robins Center has Gothic elements (that probably added a lot to the cost). It also hasn't had to expand into disconnected areas to accommodate growth like UVA has to. W&M has as well, but to a lesser extent. Still, I can't say I like Richmond's campus more than W&M or UVA. Although it is in a residential area, it seems kind of isolated. W&M and UVA have commercial parts of their towns just across the street.

What disconnected areas? And ALL older universities have had the same problem that you raise: how to efficiently build newer, better, more comfortable and environmentally-friendly buildings on a budget (especially true for state schools). My own SLAC has AWFUL dorms built in the 70s. Huge, ugly cinderblock monstrosities next to gorgeous gothic buildings. The Lamont library at Harvard comes to mind - ugly but functional and totally alien in style to the Widener library next door or other adjacent buildings dating back 100s of years. Universities do what they can afford and move on.

NP, but clearly if you are going from Hereford College to play intramurals at The Park in the North Grounds, it isn't a hop, skip, and a jump. You'd walk down a hill, along a busy road, through a residential areas, through a commercial area, through athletic facilities, past a separate campus for business, law, and the JAG school, and past parking lots. It would take about 40 minutes.

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Wash U in St. Louis

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As an architecture enthusiast, I dislike schools that build modern buildings in a faux-old style. A little juxtaposition (a modern dorm nestled amongst older buildings or the glass-fronted library from the 70s across from a neoclassical building from the 1800s) makes things interesting.

The faux-old buildings are the college campus equivalent of new homes with craftsmen details thrown on the front to give the air of “character.”

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What disconnected areas? And ALL older universities have had the same problem that you raise: how to efficiently build newer, better, more comfortable and environmentally-friendly buildings on a budget (especially true for state schools). My own SLAC has AWFUL dorms built in the 70s. Huge, ugly cinderblock monstrosities next to gorgeous gothic buildings. The Lamont library at Harvard comes to mind - ugly but functional and totally alien in style to the Widener library next door or other adjacent buildings dating back 100s of years. Universities do what they can afford and move on.

NP, but clearly if you are going from Hereford College to play intramurals at The Park in the North Grounds, it isn't a hop, skip, and a jump. You'd walk down a hill, along a busy road, through a residential areas, through a commercial area, through athletic facilities, past a separate campus for business, law, and the JAG school, and past parking lots. It would take about 40 minutes.

You’re showing your age here. We’d take a Lime and be there in five minutes.

Crossing Ivy Road isn’t going through a commercial area. Lol

And at least we can go out to eat at a locally-owned restaurant in our little shopping area. Last time I was at UR, you had to get in the car to do anything.

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Anonymous wrote:As an architecture enthusiast, I dislike schools that build modern buildings in a faux-old style. A little juxtaposition (a modern dorm nestled amongst older buildings or the glass-fronted library from the 70s across from a neoclassical building from the 1800s) makes things interesting.

The faux-old buildings are the college campus equivalent of new homes with craftsmen details thrown on the front to give the air of “character.”

If done well, modern architecture can add variety. But a lot of the stuff done in the 1950s through the 1970s, at least at the colleges in this region, were not good examples of modern architecture. They lacked imagination and had no sense of context. They often continued to use traditional materials, like brick, which didn't really work as well. When they meet the wrecking ball, they usually aren't lamented.

"Modern buildings in a faux-old style" could either be post-modern, which became trendy in the 1980s, or neoclassical. The buildings at Richmond could probably be called neo-collegiate gothic. So yes, you could say Richmond was conservative, but they aren't left with the equivalent of bell-bottomed pants.

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A new ranking. In the region, Richmond is 5, William & Mary 16, and Christopher Newport 17.

https://www.businessinsider.com/most-beautiful-college-campuses-rankings-2019-8

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What disconnected areas? And ALL older universities have had the same problem that you raise: how to efficiently build newer, better, more comfortable and environmentally-friendly buildings on a budget (especially true for state schools). My own SLAC has AWFUL dorms built in the 70s. Huge, ugly cinderblock monstrosities next to gorgeous gothic buildings. The Lamont library at Harvard comes to mind - ugly but functional and totally alien in style to the Widener library next door or other adjacent buildings dating back 100s of years. Universities do what they can afford and move on.

NP, but clearly if you are going from Hereford College to play intramurals at The Park in the North Grounds, it isn't a hop, skip, and a jump. You'd walk down a hill, along a busy road, through a residential areas, through a commercial area, through athletic facilities, past a separate campus for business, law, and the JAG school, and past parking lots. It would take about 40 minutes.

You’re showing your age here. We’d take a Lime and be there in five minutes.

Crossing Ivy Road isn’t going through a commercial area. Lol

And at least we can go out to eat at a locally-owned restaurant in our little shopping area. Last time I was at UR, you had to get in the car to do anything.

Probably.

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Per latest Princeton Review. Elon is #1.
https://www.princetonreview.com/press/best-385-colleges

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Anonymous wrote:A new ranking. In the region, Richmond is 5, William & Mary 16, and Christopher Newport 17.

https://www.businessinsider.com/most-beautiful-college-campuses-rankings-2019-8

Christopher Newport is lovely.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 especially with regards to Salve Regina. No, I don’t think my kids will be going there but it is the most gorgeous campus in US, hands down.

No, it’s not. It looks like an upscale residential neighborhood, with one giant mansion at its center. Little about it suggests it’s an institution of higher learning.

I'm sorry you are so uninformed! No connection here other than the fact that I have visited Newport, and Salve Regina is next door to The Breakers and down the road from Rosecliff and other famous mansions along Bellevue Avenue. Do some research before you chime in next time...like how about looking at Google Maps for instance.

Plus overlooks Newport Harbor. Stunning

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Anonymous wrote:Per latest Princeton Review. Elon is #1.
https://www.princetonreview.com/press/best-385-colleges

Elon is not all that. Wake Forest, Princeton, UVA, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Furman -/ all much more beautiful,