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UVA - did not make the list Duke - did not make the list UChicago - did not make the list Yale - did not make the list UMichigan - #17 Berkley - did not make the list Princeton - did not make the list Boston College - did not make the list Columbia - #24 Harvard - did not make the list William & Mary - did not make the list Stanford - #4 WashU - did not make the list University of Washington - did not make the list (though a personal fav of mine) UCLA - did not make the list Notre Dame - did not make the list MIT - did not make the list Rice - did not make the list |
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Hey, throw some roof top villages on that thing and we have a modern marvel. |
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So, let me get this right, you're whinging that Penn's campus is ugly because its Brutalist-era buildings are ugly? Do. You. Have. Any. Fucking. Idea. How. Fucking. Entitled. That. Sounds?!? Most of us are Drexel and Temple grads, and if you've ever bothered to step one fucking foot off your fucking campus bubble you would have fucking noticed that these fucking schools are fucking entirely monuments to fucking Brutalism! |
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The main knock against Penn in my opinion is that there is no Wendy's nearby, in addition to the general lack of rooftop shopping. |
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The only thing better would be a ROOFTOP WENDY'S. [I think I just peed my pants. :uhh:] |
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(2) I did it on loans. IOW shut up about finance. The way you're missing the point is utterly comical here. The 1960s were an era of immense (public) investment in college campuses. Schools like Cleveland State in Ohio were built literally out of whole cloth in the 1960s. Or: Every school has ugly 1960s buildings. It's a part of their fabric. Cases in point -- Yale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_U...r_20,_2008.jpg Harvard: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/images/co...7/8/v2/786.jpg Columbia: http://www.emporis.com/images/show/6...ast-corner.jpg U. of Chicago: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...of_Chicago.JPG Duke University: http://66.media.tumblr.com/42b58da4a...lyyo1_1280.jpg So. Stop. Kvetching. |
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It's not that your criticism is totally off base, it's just not exactly tethered to reality. To totally ignore the heart of Penn's campus, locust walk and the numerous architectural gems that line it, is a major failing of your argument. To hold Bronx CC's bland library as a great work of architecture and then claim how ugly UPenn is when it has countless buildings that are far more impressive, serves to highlight a clear bias that you hold. Why you hold that bias I don't know. But despite its failings there are parts of Upenn's campus that are undeniably beautiful and by flatly dismissing the entire campus you lose credibility. You want to advocate for better architecture at Upenn, most would agree that's a worthwhile cause. But if you're to be successful you're going to need to be more realistic. Being so blindly negative only serves to signal yourself as an unreasonable person to others and from there it's difficult to make any progress. |
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Rutgers Camden is another example of a school that essentially came into being in the 60s. It also faces in on itself like parts of Penn and much of Temple. Even though they have taken measures to add more uses on Cooper Street, the nexus of the campus is what used to be the intersection of 4th and Penn Street. Everyday I leave the law school on the western end of campus and walk through the middle of campus to get home not because its shorter but because it's a nice walk.
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The Walnut Street Parking Garage will also be demolished and replaced with a new construction mid-rise at some point. Rittenhouse Labs I actually like. I also like Wharton's Huntsman Hall and the Highrise Dorms. |
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