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re: Most beautiful / ugliest academic Buildings on your campus
Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:25 am to Farmer1906
Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:25 am to Farmer1906
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Has anyone been to Duke's campus? I have to say it's my favorite campus I have visited.
I haven't but I have been to Chapel Hill down the road and it is probably my favorite campus I've visited. The drive through the mountains to get there was also beautiful.
I'm also partial to Rhodes College's campus in my home town and my parents alma mater (similar architecture as Duke)
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Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:29 am to Farmer1906
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I have to say it's my favorite campus I have visited.
same.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:37 am to jatebe
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And I guess ten Hoor is my least favorite
I have to agree. A building needs at least a dozen hoors or its a complete waste of time.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:51 am to Dday63
I'm sure there's better/worse, but for the sake of showing off buildings I haven't seen in this thread:
Worst (Allen Hall)
Best (Colvard Student Union)
Worst (Allen Hall)
Best (Colvard Student Union)
Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:54 am to CleverUserName
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Best is the buildings of Swalm Chemical Engineering bldg / Lee Hall. They are mirror images of each other and face each other on the drill field.
I don't know if I agree they are the best on campus, but you do have to give the whole story.
Lee Hall was built in 1909. It sits on the North end of the Drill field and has been one of the school's primary administrative buildings for over a century.
The Swalm Chemical Engineering building was finished in 1998 (I think?) on the South end of the Drill field, and its exterior was designed to mirror historic Lee Hall, although they didn't get the front steps quite right (I gave literally HUNDREDS of dollars so that future Chem E students could have a building 10 times better than what I suffered through!)
Posted on 7/25/18 at 12:00 pm to lsupride87
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Kirby Smith
It's about time someone posted that. It's the ugliest inside and out.
I like the French House, as someone else posted, my mother lived there (and eloped from their with Dad) when she was at LSU in the 50s.
I've also have an affinity for Atkinson Hall at the south end of the Quad:
The Law Building is kind of nice as well:
It's no mistake that the LSU campus shares a similar aesthetic with Stanford's campus:
In 1920, the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm was hired to create an overall plan for the new campus. The firm had already designed the campuses of Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and others, as well as Audubon Park in New Orleans. They envisioned the campus architectural style of the Northern Italian Renaissance featuring pantile roofs, archways, and stucco walls along with arches and towers. The style was very similar to that of Stanford University.
Stanford:
LSU:
Posted on 7/25/18 at 12:30 pm to AUTseed
Those rumors started back at least in 2002 ish. It will be a logistics nightmare.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 1:53 pm to AuburnPanic40
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- Foy Hall (although it has undergone extensive renovations recently)
Before Google, if we wanted to find something out, we'd just call Foy Union! Still remember the number. 844-4244. Settled many a bar bet that way
Posted on 7/25/18 at 2:14 pm to TailbackU
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Before Google, if we wanted to find something out, we'd just call Foy Union! Still remember the number. 844-4244. Settled many a bar bet that way
Hahah that is way before my time, I’m a current student so the only real reason I have to go into Foy is if I have a class there. It’s weird to think about it as the student union
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:42 pm to Pettifogger
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For my "other" school, it's probably the same building, which just happens to be the only building I really ever spent much time in
Exterior sucks
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Interior is pretty pleasant
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Man....why did you have to go and do that. I can smell that place sitting here at my desk 20 years later.
My colon liquifies at the thought.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:52 pm to jatebe
I had two classes in ten Hoor (JCM 340 and PHL 256). That place always felt so out of date compared to the rest of the campus and always had the worst congestion going to and out of class. Good news was I lived right on Reed Street, and both of those classes stood alone in the middle of the day.
This post was edited on 7/25/18 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 7/25/18 at 3:55 pm to TailbackU
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Before Google, if we wanted to find something out, we'd just call Foy Union! Still remember the number. 844-4244. Settled many a bar bet that way
Yep. 8-Foy-Foy - Foy-2-Foy-Foy was how orientation referenced the number. Stupid as hell but drunk me could remember it no problem and get my point made, dammit!
Posted on 7/25/18 at 4:05 pm to Kentucker
Agree with college of law being ugly. So is Patterson office tower and the class room building (white Hall)
I do like the looks of memorial hall as well as the chem phys building. It kinda looks like a steam boat
I do like the looks of memorial hall as well as the chem phys building. It kinda looks like a steam boat
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Posted on 7/25/18 at 4:07 pm to Kentucker
Hey, those are classics.
Less queer design than the new dorms
Less queer design than the new dorms
Posted on 7/25/18 at 4:07 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 7/25/18 at 6:44 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
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If they just removed that weird spire the Hunter Henry Center wouldn't look that bad.
I believe the school was asking for a million dollar donation for naming rights to the spire. Don't know if they got it or not.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 10:56 pm to MedDawg
Georgia’s Psychology building is by far the ugliest. It’s not even symmetrical. The whole Psychology/Journalism complex is an abortion. My tailgate parking pass has been there for decades and I’ve spent many a day drunkenly staring at the building trying to figure just what the frick they were thinking in building this building and deciding on window placements.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:00 pm to Dr RC
quote:oh blocker. I had a class in there that literally had no wifi or cell reception that was also like...two separate dueling class rooms that were crammed into the same spot
I share Blocker's tears at the decadent Western buildings popping up everywhere.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:24 pm to AuburnPanic40
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Hahah that is way before my time, I’m a current student so the only real reason I have to go into Foy is if I have a class there. It’s weird to think about it as the student union
I spent waaaaaay too much time in there back in the day shooting pool and playing Street Fighter.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 11:31 pm to DannyB
Haven’t been to the motherland in a few years due to living out west.
Is the Fred Allison building still in use at Auburn? I know they were planning to use that space for something else
Is the Fred Allison building still in use at Auburn? I know they were planning to use that space for something else
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