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Lets rate college architecture from a scale of 1-10 (ten being the highest).

Lets start with the new MIT Stata Center:

http://web.mit.edu/buildings/statacenter/

By Mysticwistful (Mysticwistful) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 11:33 am: Edit

Looks like a pile of aluminum garbage. No offense......that's just my opinion.

I give it a 1.

By Alan5 (Alan5) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 11:43 am: Edit

Ouch! The next entry is Babson College's new campus center:

http://www.rawnarch.com/selproj8.html

By Palomino (Palomino) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 01:12 pm: Edit

why don't you just cut to the chase and post the picture of whichever Northeastern building that you want people to "ooooh" and "ahhhh" over.

By Mini (Mini) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 01:24 pm: Edit

Here's the Northeastern photo:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/

By Alan5 (Alan5) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 01:34 pm: Edit

LOL, I was not going to post an NEU building (Although they are nice).

Here is the next entry:

http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/huntsmanhall/tour/

By Alan5 (Alan5) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 01:50 pm: Edit

The funny thing is that the building posted by Mini is what NEU used to look like about thirty years ago--Lol. This is what it looks like now:

http://www.pressleyinc.com/nu-behrakis.html

Sorry but I couldn't resist.

By Mini (Mini) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 01:54 pm: Edit

(I think I like the old one better.)

By Alan5 (Alan5) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 02:24 pm: Edit

Take a closer look:

http://www.rawnarch.com/selproj2.html


Here is another new one that will open at the end of this month:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/buildingh/index.html

By Alan5 (Alan5) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 02:29 pm: Edit

Here is the next entry from MIT:

http://www.mit.edu/~ianb/simpics/pages/Simmons%20from%20outside.html

By Wheatthin (Wheatthin) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 02:52 pm: Edit

Rensselaer's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center ollks interesting. Sheduled completion is Spring '06 I think.

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/sub/empacpreview/empac360-1.html

By Alan5 (Alan5) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 03:06 pm: Edit

Wow! It looks really interesting. I give it an 8.

By Palomino (Palomino) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 03:12 pm: Edit

The RPI building looks like a giant jet engine.

By Arcadia (Arcadia) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 03:34 pm: Edit

Middlebury's new library:

http://www.gwathmey-siegel.com/projects/architecture/library_projects/middlebury/indexright.html

By Alan5 (Alan5) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 03:43 pm: Edit

Middlebury's new library looks like a large hydrofoil or a spaceship. I give it a 7.5.

By Alan5 (Alan5) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 03:50 pm: Edit

Here is the next entry from Amherst College:

http://www.amherst.edu/news/geology/

Rate it.

By Mini (Mini) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 04:20 pm: Edit

Funny -- almost a twin of "Earlham architecture", where all the buildings look like that.

http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epublicaf/construction071504.html

By Arthurd (Arthurd) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 04:49 pm: Edit

I'd give the Northeastern Bldg H an 8.5 -- looks really nice.

Amherst & Earlham: 7

Here is RIT's new Gordon Field House and Activities Center:

http://www.rit.edu/~field/currentviews.php3

By Mini (Mini) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 05:07 pm: Edit

Here's bunch all at once:

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/ThisMonth.asp

By Ay_Caramba (Ay_Caramba) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 05:56 pm: Edit

Here's a completely different style --Duke
http://www.anupshetty.com/images/duke_west/duke_west_gallery.html

By Mysticwistful (Mysticwistful) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 06:55 pm: Edit

Man, why are MIT's buildings so ugly? I thought they would have some of the best architecture seeing as how MIT is uber-prestigious. I guess MIT is just a place that sounds better than it looks.

By Deferreddude (Deferreddude) on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 06:56 pm: Edit

Duke looks like an ivy-league/England wannabe. Where are the basketball courts?

By Alan5 (Alan5) on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 07:03 am: Edit

The next entry is from Emerson College:

http://www.elkus-manfredi.com/emerson.html

By Bellevueteen (Bellevueteen) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 12:35 pm: Edit

How exactly do you look like an ivy-league wannabe? Have gothic buildings? Plenty of universities have those..and the basketball courts are in a seperate area with the rest of the athletic fields and stuff.