What is the ugliest building you've seen on a college campus?
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Anonymous
I nominate the library at Clark University:
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Anonymous
| Gonna be hard to top that. |
Anonymous
| Pretty much all of skidmore |
Anonymous
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None in the US.
One of my undergrad STEM universities in Paris is horribly ugly, but not only that. It was built on the cheap and people found out after it was inaugurated that it was fire trap. The entire thing was built on concrete pillars with exits and entrances in the pillars, and given the large structure on top, and the insufficient number of exits, a study found that most people inside the building would die if a major fire broke out. Also, the large, smooth, stone esplanade at the front was initially conceived for a hotter climate without winter frost, and every year an undisclosed number of students, professors and researchers break something slipping on the ice. |
Anonymous
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Personally I like it, but my husband thinks it's ugly...the Lewis building at Case Western.
https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/39#&gid=1&pid=5 |
Anonymous
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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/ |
Anonymous
Quaker Square Residence Hall on the University of Akron campus. Oatmeal silos turned into student housing/university hotel.
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Anonymous
| All of GMU is pretty ugly (I went there). |
Anonymous
Stony Brook University hospital. I was there in the 80s and it was a running joke how ugly it was.
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Anonymous
I was just in Saratoga Springs and this is true. We drove around campus and couldn’t get over how ugly it was. Nice downtown, though. |
Anonymous
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The MIT chapel. I thought they had placed a water tank in the middle of campus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Chapel |
Anonymous
Amherst is at least 50 miles from the Berkshires |
Anonymous
| Wow these are killing me! |
Anonymous
I was going to say that too. You guys are good. |
Anonymous
Fine, in the Pioneer Vally, located in the foothills is the Berkshires. |