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Posted on 1/23/25 at 5:05 pm to TheLegend
How can an architect with a straight face build this
Across the street from this? And think it was a good idea. AND get approval from LSU.
Across the street from this? And think it was a good idea. AND get approval from LSU.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 5:07 pm to GumboPot
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LSU has a few brutalist buildings...Math and Science Buildings. Happy LSU is getting rid of the terrible looking Middleton Library.
Pretty much every campus that was growing in the 60s, 70s, 80s has a few real pieces of shite architecture.
They're starting to all hit the end of their useful life and be replaced fortunately.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 5:10 pm to GumboPot
quote:The only people who say that brutalism is beautiful are the San Francisco smell your own fart types.
I have never understood the attractiveness of communist brutalism architecture.
There is nothing enjoyable about brutalism.
The architecture style should have died with the Soviet Union.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 5:15 pm to BuckyCheese
quote:It is celebrated by pretentious losers who want to seem more enlightened.
This is celebrated as great architecture by some.
I have no idea why.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 5:19 pm to TheLegend
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Are you kidding me? Lockett is campus treasure
Just to be clear I was talking about the Life Sciences Building.
If is were not surrounded by the beautiful Live Oaks it would stick out more like a sore thumb among LSU's classic Italian Renaissance architecture.
If you are an architect, what are you thinking? Why would you place that kind of architecture among this:
Sometimes I think these architects out smart themselves.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 5:20 pm to RaoulDuke504
Meh, that same generic architecture is being built on every college campus in America right now. It’s an improvement over brutalist crap, but not necessarily unique or beautiful.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 5:45 pm to BuckyCheese
I like the porch, but...
Posted on 1/23/25 at 6:23 pm to Basura Blanco
They need to take out that god-awful Lockett building, and build the new library there in the same theme of the rest of the quad. That would place it right next to Hill Memorial Library.
It's the perfect spot for the main library once Middleton is out of the way.
It's the perfect spot for the main library once Middleton is out of the way.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 6:34 pm to GumboPot
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I have never understood the attractiveness of communist brutalism architecture.
cost would one big factor. Simpler to build and maintain a big box than something pretty like in the OP. Hopefully Vanderbuilt put a lot of clever thought into how to they are going to maintain something like that for the long-term.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 6:46 pm to GumboPot
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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.
Same goes for the Business complex. It looks like gold Monopoly hotels leading to a shitty midget tower which screams "trying too hard". I'm not a big fan of the Spanish look for a university, but the architectural inconsistency of this crap from everything else should have caused someone to be fired.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 6:55 pm to meltingman
The brick masons finished their part but the stone masons went on strike before finishing.
This post was edited on 1/23/25 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 1/23/25 at 7:53 pm to RaoulDuke504
My three daughters all lived in those old towers, and they were awful buildings! They looked like something the East Germans would have built in the 1970’s. Those towers were really the only ugly thing blighting an otherwise beautiful campus.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 10:29 pm to GumboPot
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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.
Just was popular from after ww2 until the 70s. Lots of campuses and government buildings are like this.
Also something with concrete meaning equality. Some commie bullshite.
Buffalo court building
Library at UCal San Diego
Posted on 1/23/25 at 10:38 pm to GumboPot
The Student Union is the only decent looking campus building of the 60s-70s. It actually looks really nice in its setting and is one of the only ones not of the Italianate style that somehow manages to blend in with it.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 10:53 pm to LSUtoBOOT
My mind keeps playing Tetris.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 11:01 pm to RaoulDuke504
Where's the beautiful building?
Posted on 1/24/25 at 12:04 am to GumboPot
Before Patrick F. Taylor Hall was refurbished, we had CEBA (Center for Engineering and Business Administration).
It was fricking awful. They had so many f*cking fluorescent lights all over the place that you could actually hear the "CEBA Hum" (the constant and annoying humming coming from all of the light fixtures) from about 25 yards before you entered the building.
It was fricking awful. They had so many f*cking fluorescent lights all over the place that you could actually hear the "CEBA Hum" (the constant and annoying humming coming from all of the light fixtures) from about 25 yards before you entered the building.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 6:49 am to BuckyCheese
A bad ripoff of FLW?
Posted on 1/24/25 at 7:30 am to GumboPot
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Happy LSU is getting rid of the terrible looking Middleton Library.
I have mixed feelings about that, mainly due to it being a part of my nostalgic memories of being a student at LSU, but I have to admit you're right Middleton, Lockett, and a few other bldgs look like shite when compared to the Italian Renaissance architecture that is the basis of the campus.
This also brings me to the artwork in the corridors of Allen Hall. Are those socialist murals from the days of FDR still adorning the walls there? Surely they have covered that up with a few good, clean coats of paint by now. (It's been several decades since I have walked those halls so I really have no idea if the vestiges of FDR's socialst state still remain on display there.)
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