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Ugliest building on campus?
aldoty85
Posted 20 years ago
What would you say the ugliest building on your campus would be?
Mine would have to be the Hannah Administration Building at Michigan State University.
Mine would have to be the Hannah Administration Building at Michigan State University.

Colorado State University is a good school, but it has a number of ugly aluminum and glass buildings from the 70's. I live in the same town, and I'll try to take some pics soon and post them here.
Alex, I'll have to respectfully disagree... the IMC/Urban Planning building is the ugliest.

Oh, and the Plant & Soil Building is quite ugly as well! (Maybe even uglier than IMC/UPLA.)

Oh, and the Plant & Soil Building is quite ugly as well! (Maybe even uglier than IMC/UPLA.)
aldoty85
Posted 20 years ago
The Plant and Soil Building reminds me of the Comm Arts building. A brick fortress if I have ever seen one.
Easy.. This is the Science Factory, by Autzen Stadium at the University of Oregon.
This is the ugliest, and strangest paint job I've ever seen...
Not classic University Ugly.. But.. Ugly none the less...
This is the ugliest, and strangest paint job I've ever seen...
Not classic University Ugly.. But.. Ugly none the less...
It's been 24 years since I last saw it, but that Urban Planning building reminds me a lot of the credit union building on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington. I have no pics of it.
I'm in Fort Collins, Colorado now, where Colorado State University has a few ugly glass-and-aluminum beasts from the 60's and 70's. I'll try to get some pics of those a couple of Sundays from now.
I'm in Fort Collins, Colorado now, where Colorado State University has a few ugly glass-and-aluminum beasts from the 60's and 70's. I'll try to get some pics of those a couple of Sundays from now.
Erechtheus
Posted 20 years ago
I have attended both William & Mary and the University of Richmond. The whole of W&M's new campus is pretty darn ugly, but I'd probably nominate something like Yates Hall as ugliest building. Old and ancient campuses are terrific, though. Richmond fares better in this contest -- I'd have to say that the Special Programs Building is the ugliest one. I don't have pictures of either ugly building.
At McGill it would probably be the Burnside building... one of those grey concrete towers. Too bad it was so ugly I never took a picture of it! :)
that would be my very own building where my office is housed - ugh.
www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/171317983/in/set-7215759417...
www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/171317983/in/set-7215759417...
southgeist
Posted 18 years ago
May I offer the "economics bunker" at the Hamburg University? Whose beauty is quite enhanced through an underperforming ventilation, windows that are always dirty and the main window-front goes o the north.

The Crosley Tower is the ugliest building on UC's campus without a doubt! It's a disgusting monolith to the aesthetic failure of the 1970s. Close runners-up include the DAAP building and that ugly building that is attached to Swift Hall.
Brown's Science Library (SciLi) is almost as ugly as Crosley Tower. Constructed 1971 in the brutalist concrete style. Bonus: when it rains, it gets ugly water stains.