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

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https://media.architecturaldigest.com/photos/59ba9b1ee15bac42ea9a932e/master/w_1600,c_limit/John%2520and%2520Frances%2520Angelos%2520Law%2520Center%2520via%2520Flickr%2520Roland%2520Krebs.jpg

John and Frances Angelos Law Center, University of Baltimore School of Law

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Anonymous wrote:Gonna be hard to top that.

Looks like the humanities building at UWMadison.

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formerly-named Morton Hall on the otherwise splendid William & Mary campus.

[Anonymous]

Jester dorm, University of Texas at Austin. Birthplace of Dell Computers.

[Anonymous]

Lauinger Library at Georgetown. Next to gorgeous architecture, it sticks out like a sore thumb (literally)



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Lauinger_Library.jpg

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gonna be hard to top that.

Looks like the humanities building at UWMadison.

Which at along last is finally coming down.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gonna be hard to top that.

Looks like the humanities building at UWMadison.

Which at along last is finally coming down.

gotta get fool Republucans to agree.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gonna be hard to top that.

Looks like the humanities building at UWMadison.

Which at along last is finally coming down.

gotta get fool Republucans to agree.

^ excuse me, Republicans.

[Anonymous]

NP and thank you for this thread which is so funny I've spit out my coffee

I googled a couple places from my former campuses that I thought were hideous (in particular, the infamous Gropius Dorms at Harvard Law) but they don't even rate compared to some of the PPs pics.

here is Bunche Hall at UCLA

https://www.reddit.com/r/evilbuildings/comments/6hjy4h/bunche_hall_ucla_looks_like_a_dystopian/

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Anonymous wrote:Bryn Mawr’s Erdman. The only thing uglier and more depressing than the outside…


…is the inside:

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I nominate the library at Clark University:

This looks like it should be the Department of Motor Vehicles in Mos Eisley.

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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.

Oh look, the same morons who think they're super-edgy and unique are defending one of the most hideous styles of architecture. How edgy.

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Anonymous wrote: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

To sum up: brutalist architecture is brutally ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:Lauinger Library at Georgetown. Next to gorgeous architecture, it sticks out like a sore thumb (literally)



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Lauinger_Library.jpg

whole campus is ugly.