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Originally Posted by RLS_rls
Total beast/beauty. Campus Brutalism is always cool, way more interactive than corporate brutalism. Some nice examples here at UofM, but nothing close to that massive or (from the looks of it) isolated.
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Isolated is an interesting word for it. UIC has a terrible interface with the surrounding neighborhoods - expressways to the north and east, and a few hundred feet of greenbelt to the west. Streets don't connect and there's not a lot of urban legibility in the Kevin Lynch sense.
Certainly Chicago's other large universities do a much better job tying into their surroundings (Northwestern, UChicago, Loyola, DePaul).