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re: Went to Miss. St.'s campus yesterday - Beautiful
Posted on 3/5/12 at 12:11 am to Numberwang
Posted on 3/5/12 at 12:11 am to Numberwang
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Arkansas doesn't landscape a whole lot. Its a different approach. I think the campus is more "Big 10" looking than old antebellum south.
Arkansas has a little of everything, literally. Reference my pictures and yours It's a mash of the South meshed with Big10.
Honestly, this is what makes it so awesome along with the incredible views of the hills.
Alabama's campus is very pretty but it's the same damn building one after another and that gets old quickly.
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Posted on 3/5/12 at 12:17 am to SunHog
Its a matter of locale. Its not as sweltering up in the Ozarks in the summer, so there wasn't the same necessity of porches, and air flow and that led to different designs being favored.
Old Main and most of the rest of the campus core are distinctly different styles, but the limestone and red brick compliment each other well. Walking near Old Main is a very "grand" kind of awesome feeling, because its towers are 7-stories tall, and it sits at the crest of a hill, so it towers over the campus and city.
I think Alabama's campus is beautfiul, too, though.
I think a better comparison is UCA. I think in some ways that is a beautiful campus, but every building is identical in style, Georgian architecture, red brick. It is good in some ways, but boring in another way.
But this building will always feel like college to me.
Old Main and most of the rest of the campus core are distinctly different styles, but the limestone and red brick compliment each other well. Walking near Old Main is a very "grand" kind of awesome feeling, because its towers are 7-stories tall, and it sits at the crest of a hill, so it towers over the campus and city.
I think Alabama's campus is beautfiul, too, though.
I think a better comparison is UCA. I think in some ways that is a beautiful campus, but every building is identical in style, Georgian architecture, red brick. It is good in some ways, but boring in another way.
But this building will always feel like college to me.
This post was edited on 3/5/12 at 12:18 am
Posted on 3/5/12 at 12:24 am to SunHog
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Alabama's campus is very pretty but it's the same damn building one after another and that gets old quickly.
I guess it's a matter of preference. The planners took care to make sure all the new additions matched the old buildings. UA's master plan has every detail covered, from what shade of brick to what type of columns can be used.
Posted on 3/5/12 at 12:24 am to SunHog
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Alabama's campus is very pretty but it's the same damn building one after another and that gets old quickly.
It's called Greek Revival architecture. It was modeled after the University of Virginia.
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