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re: God awful BR building designs
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:40 pm to Emteein
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:40 pm to Emteein
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Name a city in the world that doesn’t have some bad building designs. BR isn’t unique in this aspect.
I was in Phoenix last week. Went for a walk and saw this abomination up close.
It's the US District Court Building.
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Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:41 pm to foj1981
Based off the buildings you selected, it appears you just don't like any architecture involving modern elements.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:42 pm to AA77
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LSU's business school doesn't really fit with the style of the rest of campus
All of those little brown panels are specially made once per year by a single manufacturer in Minnesota. They're stupidly expensive and if one breaks (as several have thanks to lawnmowers) the university has to wait until that one company chooses to make the next batch of that glass and then pay out the arse to get one and ship it down here.
This is the business school... and they make these kinds of decisions. It just shows the fricking stupidity of the average professor/administrator in the LSU business school.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:42 pm to LSUBoo
It looks like a mega church
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:44 pm to foj1981
Not sure why or how BR has a phobia of going vertical. Look at Mobile, Alabama’s skyline and tell me how a city smaller than BR has taller buildings. Actually, several smaller cities have better looking downtown areas than BR.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:44 pm to Mudminnow
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Hospitals dont look too bad.
None of the buildings the OP mentioned are bad, structural issue aside.
There are plenty of examples of terrible BR architecture though. Middleton Library, City Hall, that terrible new monstrosity of a house on Old Perkins just inside the parish line.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:45 pm to TigersSEC2010
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This is the business school... and they make these kinds of decisions. It just shows the fricking stupidity of the average professor/administrator in the LSU business school.
Business professors were involved in the building process and selection of materials?
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:45 pm to LSUBoo
Bruh? The library?
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:47 pm to rowbear1922
The rest of those buildings are all pretty generic so I agree with the OP. But you see those same buildings in every big city. The LSU business school architect was trying to do a modern interpretation of LSU's main campus so I give them credit for that. But the result looks too 1980's Post Modern and the rotunda is bad.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:49 pm to foj1981
quote:dont be jelly that you ain't posting from a corner office in it
Pecue and Perkins- Performance contractors. Nearly a billion dollar company and that’s the best they can come up with. I guess if you have money doesn’t mean you have taste.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:49 pm to LSUBoo
To me, one of the most bizarre buildings in BR, which I like but just doesn't fit what's around it/BR is the Republic Building/ Wells Fargo on Corporate blvd.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:50 pm to Zappas Stache
Does BR have a childrens hospital replacing it with a new one or is this new?
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:51 pm to rowbear1922
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but just doesn't fit what's around it/
There is no reason to be bland just because there is blandness around you.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:51 pm to foj1981
This is shite that's been going on since the 50's and 60's. Most architecture today has no soul. I was in DC & Georgetown last weekend and the differences in styles between now and even the 1930's is stark and saddening.
Give me spires, or statues, or flying buttresses, or even fricking crenelations instead of this flat or cubist "modern" bullshite. Considering where we are I would love seeing even just more iron trellises or railings with vines and fleur de lis than the soulless, antiseptic crap thrown up these days.
Give me spires, or statues, or flying buttresses, or even fricking crenelations instead of this flat or cubist "modern" bullshite. Considering where we are I would love seeing even just more iron trellises or railings with vines and fleur de lis than the soulless, antiseptic crap thrown up these days.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:51 pm to Mudminnow
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Does BR have a childrens hospital replacing it with a new one or is this new?
It's new.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:53 pm to Zappas Stache
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There is no reason to be bland just because there is blandness around you.
If it blended into the rest of corporate blvd it would be overpriced apartments or shitty run down strip malls (besides towne center). This building is also just a little off corporate and most people probably don't even know it's back there. Like I said, I like it but it's just sort of out of place.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:54 pm to Bard
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Give me spires, or statues, or flying buttresses, or even fricking crenelations instead of this flat or cubist "modern" bullshite.
So just keep doing the same infinitum? I agree a lot of modern stuff today is souless. But there is also great modern stuff being done.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:54 pm to foj1981
No one wants to build nice structures in 3rd world countries.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:55 pm to LSUBoo
Great, I have heard of very sick children either going to Memphis, a St. Jude Hospital or to Texas Childrens in Houston.
Posted on 10/25/18 at 12:56 pm to foj1981
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Pecue and Perkins- Performance contractors. Nearly a billion dollar company and that’s the best they can come up with. I guess if you have money doesn’t mean you have taste.
Clearly you haven't been inside, it's a really nice building
This post was edited on 10/25/18 at 12:59 pm
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