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Redleg

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4. Reminds me of my university campus

Reply to Archae (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 15, 2021, 05:39 PM

Nov 2021

When I came here for a job interview some 20 years ago I noticed the stark, post-modern theme of the many buildings. I asked a faculty member about them and he said it was a textbook example of "brutalism." I have to admit that I have grown to like it, especially since the university has spent a lot of time and money to beautify the outdoors spaces.

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The gentle brutalism of Upper Lawn, a rural retreat in the Wiltshire countryside [View all] Celerity Nov 2021 OP

That's "Brutalism?" Archae Nov 2021 #1

I think they call that "patina" and I bet you pay dearly for it. Thomas Hurt Nov 2021 #2

It looks more to me like a half-finished house. Archae Nov 2021 #3

It strikes me as, well, not finished and left for a couple of decades to soften the edges... Thomas Hurt Nov 2021 #5

meh Celerity Nov 2021 #6

That is the ugliest "mansion" I've seen in a long time. Archae Nov 2021 #7

to each his own Celerity Nov 2021 #8

I like this one. n/t ms liberty Nov 2021 #9

Reminds me of my university campus Redleg Nov 2021 #4