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Beautiful building can still be built in this country
Posted on 1/23/25 at 12:54 pm
Posted on 1/23/25 at 12:54 pm
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Posted on 1/23/25 at 12:59 pm to RaoulDuke504
dis a bot?
Posted on 1/23/25 at 12:59 pm to RaoulDuke504
Vanderbilt's new residential colleges
Posted on 1/23/25 at 12:59 pm to RaoulDuke504
What’s in the new picture? A church?
Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:13 pm to RaoulDuke504
That's nice to see.
I have never understood the attractiveness of communist brutalism architecture. LSU has a few brutalist buildings...Math and Science Buildings. Happy LSU is getting rid of the terrible looking Middleton Library.
I have never understood the attractiveness of communist brutalism architecture. LSU has a few brutalist buildings...Math and Science Buildings. Happy LSU is getting rid of the terrible looking Middleton Library.
This post was edited on 1/23/25 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:16 pm to RaoulDuke504
Get a close up of the brick/masonry work. Seriously looks like sh!t.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:19 pm to RaoulDuke504
With tuition 70k a year and a 10 billion endowment thats what you get
Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:20 pm to RaoulDuke504
Cityscapes across America used to look so beautiful and aspirational before that horrid post-war, dehumanizing, socialistic brutalist trend made every environment look like depressing crap. Glad to see trends finally going against that.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:36 pm to RaoulDuke504
Looks like crap.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:08 pm to meltingman
Looks like Ripley’s upside down house
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:10 pm to meltingman
Has some unfortunate detailing, but it's far superior to any modernist piece of shite that would be outdated in appearance within a decade or two.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:14 pm to RaoulDuke504
There's an epic thread on this already, but I miss the early 20th century architecture. Seems like pride of artistry/craftsmanship has been lost over the decades. I imagine it must not be terribly practical to design buildings in such a way anymore, though, with the infrastructure demands of our technological age.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:45 pm to meltingman
You prefer this?
This post was edited on 1/23/25 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:51 pm to RaoulDuke504
The name “Ludwig Mies van der Rohe” should be cursed and spat upon. As the late great Tom Wolfe put it when observing 1970’s 5th Ave. in Manhattan, that kind of architecture is “German worker housing pitched 30 stories high”.
If you hate that kind of look and love beautiful buildings, Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House is worth the read.
If you hate that kind of look and love beautiful buildings, Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House is worth the read.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:54 pm to RaoulDuke504
60s/70s building on the left? They had some ugly af architecture then
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:33 pm to DesScorp
Bauhaus was full of communists.
Fun fact-Hitler shut em down.
Fun fact-Hitler shut em down.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:35 pm to RaoulDuke504
I walk by that building every day. I'm not a fan of Vanderbilt in any form or fashion, but they did a good job with that area.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:42 pm to meltingman
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Looks like crap.
I’m not sure the choice in how they implemented the different brick colors is my cup of tea, but I wouldn’t call it “crap” either and I’ll take that any day over a bland, unicolor box.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:43 pm to DesScorp
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“Ludwig Mies van der Rohe”
One of his "works".
This is celebrated as great architecture by some.
I have no idea why.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 4:50 pm to RaoulDuke504
We used to be a proper country.
Baton Rouge High School
The "new" Baker High School
Which replaced the "old" Baker High School and somehow made it worse.
Baton Rouge High School
The "new" Baker High School
Which replaced the "old" Baker High School and somehow made it worse.
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