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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]U Penn - too many bike police - too city - too much crime around
Georgetown - Crumbling buildings, trash everywhere, homeless on campus
[b]UVA - brick building look like prisons. [/quote][/b]

[b]How in earth dud you miss the rotunda and the lawn? It’s a world historic site[/quote][/b]

[b]LOL, you must be new here.[/b][/quote]

Not at all! Old timer.  Just can't imagine how a World INESCO site can be seen "as prisons" unless they are referring to the old men's dorms which have been torn down:  From Wiki: UVA is known for its  Academical Village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[8][9] UVA is known for its historic foundations, student-run honor code and secret societies."[/quote]

[b]Hereford College hasn't been torn down.[/b]  [/quote]

Nor should it be.  (fortunately, McCormick has been renovated and Alderman has been town down).  Hereford college is a residential college built in 1992 and dedicated to sustainability and environmentally conscious living.  Today it is dedicated to mindfulness, social awareness, sustainability (the dorm itself and the greens around it) and diversity.  https://hereford.virginia.edu/.  It's highly desirable because, like Yale and Harvard, Hereford is its own residential college with its own set of activities and own dining hall.  The building is long and thin to make the best use of light and to simultaneously provide the largest area of green outdoor living space per dorm space on campus.  It also offers singles for almost everyone, even some lucky first-year students. (I wish my kid had gotten into there instead of McCormick).  Hereford was highly acclaimed by the New York Times when unveiled: The modernist architecture of Hereford College won great acclaim when the residential college was unveiled. The New York Times said glowingly "it is more different from Jefferson than anything that has been built at the University in generations, but it rises to challenge him[4]" and in a later article the New York paper seemed to imply that all of New York City was jealous of the new dorm complex, stating "but for an international city, New York is sadly lacking in contemporary world-class buildings. And the lack is especially glaring considering how many world-class talents live here. Where are the buildings that can compare in formal intelligence to... Williams and Tsien's New College at the University of Virginia?[5]".  This wiki article explains how the windows are set to avoid the harsh morning sun.  Note the architecture articles at the bottom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford_College[/quote]

The old Alderman dorms were ugly, but they didn't look like prisons.   Certainly not a secure prison.  [b]Hereford looks like a prison[/b].[/quote]

And you missed a chance at learning about architecture and why Hereford is important and renowned in architecture circles.  https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/magazine/21uva.html.  The Gropius dorms at Harvard Law were ugly too but historic.  You do know who Gropius is?[/quote]

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