^^^ Yeah if they had been able to go ahead with the huge original plan that would have been Primo.
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Originally Posted by VivaLFuego
^ Here's hoping --- and you're right, in fairness Columbia showed with the Studio Gang film center that they are committed to good design in a way that Loyola, for example, isn't.
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To be fair Loyola is definitely committed to "good design" the question is if they are willing to take the risk to go from good to "great" design. I can't name a single Loyola building constructed since the abomination Gentile Center in the 1990's that isn't at least "good" design. Yeah it may be pomo or pomo-modern mishmash, but they are all solid, dense, street-facing, buildings with good urban planning principles. This attitude is all the more impressive considering that the school was in "fort campus" and "screw the pedestrian" mode just 15-20 years ago. Its hard to argue that a handsome 25 story, 600 bed, dorm with no parking and 20k sq ft retail on a quarter block right downtown is not at least "good" design. Could they have had Studio Gang or K+S design that building? Sure, but they aren't willing to take such a risk.
Also, Yes Please to that campus center design. I want it, build it now!