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Originally Posted by mhays
Those are mostly horrible. The church might be the best, at least providing a good pedestrian corner. University Hall doesn't look that bad from a distance.
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Mostly horrible? On what grounds? Just because you feel like they are horrible? Or do you have some aesthetic argument against them? I would actually argue that University Hall is the worst of all of them with Regenstein being the best.
Its funny you say that though because the only one of those photos that was taken when the building was new is the one of University Hall which fits in perfectly with my argument that a lot of criticism of Brutalism results from the fact that the movement is approximately 40 years old and at the peak of its depreciation cycle and most buildings are considered "run down". Also, the church is in fantastic shape because the congregation prizes this church and takes phenomenal care of it. Also, in real life the corner is not all that pedestrian and actually features a sunken, glass lined, rock garden/zen garden type thing at the bottom of a trench that curves between the building and the sidewalk.