re: First Look: LSU's new library

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The "quad" was more or less in the shape of a cross. All of the surrounding buildings in the Italian Renaissance style looked out on it. Then somebody decided to plop a Brady Bunch looking building right in the middle of everything cutting off the four arms of the cross from each other.

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It’s going to look so amazing once Middleton is gone. I will 100% make a trip back to campus to see the “quad” in its original, intended form. The library should have never been built there. Even 20 years ago I remember my professors calling Middleton an architectural disaster and wishing it would burn down. That’s before it fell into disrepair.

My dad (retired architect) mentions this every time we go to an LSU game.

Once they tear it down and turn it into a green space or plaza type area, they need to put the Joe Burrow statue square in the middle of it.

btw, y'all.... the new library has been planned for this location since the master plan was developed. It's supposed to provide an anchor linking the old quad with a new south quad that is going to eventually replace the current physical plant shops.