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re: Beautiful building can still be built in this country
Posted on 1/24/25 at 7:37 am to meltingman
Posted on 1/24/25 at 7:37 am to meltingman
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Get a close up of the brick/masonry work. Seriously looks like sh!t.
Agree. The architecture is beautiful but the workmanship on the masonry sucks. As does all masonry now. The burrito boys can sling the shite out of them, but they're sloppy and don't give a shite about detail.
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Posted on 1/24/25 at 7:44 am to GumboPot
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I have never understood the attractiveness of communist brutalism architecture.
It was made to depress and control the population. Straight up communism bullshite pushed hard when the reds infiltrated our institutions.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:44 am to Basura Blanco
The original BR high-school built a very long time a go and was built to last.
The new schoold don't cost that much because they will last 40 years and demo and rebuild.
The pace of technology is moving so fast a Promethous board that was cutting edge 8 years ago is antiquated now.
The new schoold don't cost that much because they will last 40 years and demo and rebuild.
The pace of technology is moving so fast a Promethous board that was cutting edge 8 years ago is antiquated now.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:45 am to RaoulDuke504
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You prefer this?
No and that was not my point. You should have found a better example than your original post.
I am very familiar with the new residential colleges at Vanderbilt. The photo I posted is actually one of the good sides.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:02 am to Basura Blanco
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Baton Rouge High School
Not sure when that was built, but it looks similar to the high schools that Birmingham built in the early part of the last century. BEAUTIFUL old Gothic buildings. Almost all have been replaced by rectangular garbage.
I think Woodlawn might be the only one still standing.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:20 am to BuckyCheese
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This is celebrated as great architecture by some.
Architects generally like to bag up their own farts and smell them later, but I'll defend Mies on this one. Not that it's great in my eyes, but if you understand the architectural and larger cultural zeitgeist of the time, it makes sense why this is celebrated.
Classical has its place.
Modern has its place.
Post-modern has its place.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:32 am to Evolved Simian
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Not sure when that was built
1926. Still one of the nicest campuses in the city.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:38 am to Swamp Angel
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I have mixed feelings about that, mainly due to it being a part of my nostalgic memories of being a student at LSU,
In the 80s, one of the lesser known features of Middleton was listening rooms in the basement. Basically, they had a catalog of vinyl LPs. You simply went to the lady at the desk and told her what record you wanted to listen to. She would then assign you a room and put on the record you requested. The rooms were fairly small and simply had acoustic tiles and a desk and chair.
I used to go in there all the time to study when I was on campus. I don’t think too many people knew about it because it always seemed to be empty. Or, at least, it never seemed full.
Does anyone know if they still have this feature? If not, does anyone know when they got rid of it?
This post was edited on 1/24/25 at 10:51 am
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:50 am to shutterspeed
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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.
I think it's more just cost. Not sure if that's what you meant by practicality.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:52 am to RaoulDuke504
Thinbrick ftw
Posted on 1/24/25 at 11:18 am to LSUBoo
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Pretty much every campus that was growing in the 60s, 70s, 80s has a few real pieces of shite architecture.
100% correct. The extreme growth at Texas A&M began in this timeframe and resulted in a metric shite ton of absolutely drab and fortress-like buildings. It was depressing for me to see many of the campuses smaller classical revival style buildings dwarfed between slabs of shite that look like this:
Sadly, I assume it was cheap and quick to build to make space for the fast growing student population. Damn.
This post was edited on 1/24/25 at 11:21 am
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