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Connie Neil - Dec 12, 2007 8:56:32 am PST #6876 of 10001

brillig

We've been mourning that news in Literary, Theo.

Fred Pete - Dec 12, 2007 9:17:35 am PST #6877 of 10001

Ann, that's a ferret.

a mixture of the gorgeous and unfortunate

I remember Tulane as the same. Big 19th century neo-Gothic at one end of the main quad, modern box on stilts (so the sidewalk could run under it) at the other, with social sciences in the middle in a wood frame building that would be only moderately out of place in the residential area of a small town.

amych - Dec 12, 2007 9:26:58 am PST #6878 of 10001

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

a mixture of the gorgeous and unfortunate

This is actually my favorite school of campus architecture -- I've never been a fan of Everything Matches schools. They look to me like housing developments. Or bridesmaids. But when you've got a campus that developed over time and across a range of styles, you're gonna have some stinkers...

§ ita § - Dec 12, 2007 9:46:26 am PST #6879 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Why does Office Depot feel housing pain? My elevator shouldn't force me to google.

msbelle - Dec 12, 2007 9:51:18 am PST #6880 of 10001

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Ahhh, I am already feeling the benefit of giving notice. I got out of a meeting on a new project. WHEE!

sarameg - Dec 12, 2007 9:51:40 am PST #6881 of 10001

I've always found UTEP's architecture to be striking: [link]

Too bad it is in such an ugly city (nice geography, El Paso is just ugly.)

Emily - Dec 12, 2007 9:53:24 am PST #6882 of 10001

"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I just don't see what's so wrong with brick. When you've got building after building of concrete, yuck. But brick... it may not be pretty, but it doesn't approach the sheer ugliness of concrete.

Cashmere - Dec 12, 2007 10:10:50 am PST #6883 of 10001

Now tagless for your comfort.

I can't believe Ball State didn't get included in the ugliest colleges. The modern buildings on campus are all built to resemble their symbols--the library is built like a stack of books, the auditorium is shaped like a piano, the archeture building is like a art table--it's all very weird.

Ginger - Dec 12, 2007 10:15:39 am PST #6884 of 10001

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I think my alma mater belongs on that "most beautiful" list [link] It's been declared a national arboretum. An obsessed 19th biology professor planted every tree native to Tennessee, plus a collection of rare oak trees, on campus and his widow endowed a fund to put information signs on each tree. Whatever else you might learn there, you do walk away knowing the scientific names of many trees. It could replace Mercer, which is really nothing special.

Cashmere - Dec 12, 2007 10:24:05 am PST #6885 of 10001

Now tagless for your comfort.

Here's my uni's fugly library.

Dark chocolate covered almonds are of the yum!

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