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Originally Posted by urbelizer
In short, USC Village is a mix of an outdoor mall with residential colleges, that is open to the public while Yale's is merely dormitories and closed to the public.
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Yale Residential Colleges are not dormitories in the conventional sense. Each of the colleges has a library, dining hall, dean's apartment, Master's quarters (house), and other student spaces (e.g., meetings rooms, studios, galleries, etc.), all surrounding a central courtyard. They may not be open to the public, but their scale (if not their function) is comparable to the USC Village.
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Originally Posted by citywatch
but if you think Yale going all in is somehow a better approach, then I'm glad USC has been more standoffish.
I think this is horrible looking....esp what looks like a very top heavy, white brick or tiled cross hatched thingamajig. Some of the other ornamental features...esp the other white brick areas....on these bldgs are just plain tacky......
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Tacky? It is a Robert A.M. Stern design. He's a very refined architect, who does his homework.
He clearly set out to replicate the Gothic-revival buildings in the Central Campus. But as typical of any really good architect, Stern was not content just to copy, hence the unique brick pattern at the top of the tower.
I quite like the pattern. It's a bit incongruous at first, but so was the exterior treatment of Saarinen's Morse/Stiles Colleges, which itself is a creative take on the stone facades of a medieval town (i.e., San Gimignano). Stern finds himself in good company.