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

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Anonymous wrote:I nominate the library at Clark University:

I kind of like it.

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Anonymous wrote:Quaker Square Residence Hall on the University of Akron campus. Oatmeal silos turned into student housing/university hotel.

That’s actually fun.

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https://wgme.com/resources/media2/16x9/full/1015/center/80/fb2e0f95-8e4a-4df8-a1c1-e3c9b2323738-large16x9_USM.jpg" border="0" class="embeddedImage" />

Maine law school building, though it is being replaced.

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I lived for four years in this brutalist monstrosity.

Lovett College, Rice University a/k/a The Toaster

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LSU 's quad has lovely Mediterranean-style architecture and a cruciform green space . . . with this awful library plunked in the middle of it



Not only is it hideous, but it is also falling apart.

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Anonymous wrote:LSU 's quad has lovely Mediterranean-style architecture and a cruciform green space . . . with this awful library plunked in the middle of it



Not only is it hideous, but it is also falling apart.

Looks like a graham cracker

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All of UC Riverside

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Anonymous wrote:https://wgme.com/resources/media2/16x9/full/1015/center/80/fb2e0f95-8e4a-4df8-a1c1-e3c9b2323738-large16x9_USM.jpg" border="0" class="embeddedImage" />

Maine law school building, though it is being replaced.

Fixing your image:

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Oh look, the same people who shop at Talbots and Pottery Barn are hating on brutalist architecture. How quaint.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh look, the same people who shop at Talbots and Pottery Barn are hating on brutalist architecture. How quaint.

Brutalist architecture is misanthropist.

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In case anyone else wants a quick 101 on Brutalist architecture like me...

"Brutalism is the techno music of architecture, stark and menacing. Brutalist buildings are expensive to maintain and difficult to destroy. They can't be easily remodeled or changed, so they tend to stay the way the architect intended. Maybe the movement has come roaring back into style because permanence is particularly attractive in our chaotic and crumbling world.


Like the original noble intentions of left-leaning midcentury-modern structures, which were meant for the Everyman but have now often ended up serving as luxury status symbols, brutalist architecture—especially the few homes and converted commercial buildings that people can actually live in today—is pounced on by aesthetically focused elites. And, as is the case when any style is on the cusp of populist rediscovery, it is also simultaneously on the edge of obliteration by those who have not yet caught on to its value....

Not surprisingly, there are feverish arguments over which designers and architects, exactly, qualify as brutalists. The category is broad and ill-defined....

It was a daring and exciting architectural movement, and there are few places on the map without a decent brutalist example or two. Let's treasure and help preserve them from those who are determined to reduce them all to rubble"

https://www.gq.com/story/9-brutalist-wonders-of-the-architecture-world

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https://apps.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/files/fullsize/e2d5a4de8217bcd2d208f04ab8fd5dcc.jpg[/img]

It used to be the Undergraduate Library at Michigan (called the UGLI), but it's been replaced.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh look, the same people who shop at Talbots and Pottery Barn are hating on brutalist architecture. How quaint.

Brutalist architecture is misanthropist.

Right, the Hirshhorn is bad but the 5 over 1 abominations all over the city are just great.

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This is where I worked in college

http://web.mit.edu/swing/scl/ne43-entrance.jpg

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Anonymous wrote:This is where I worked in college