Here’s a paywall-bypassed link.
If Trump can replace some of those rather unsightly government buildings with nicer facilities, that’ll probably be one of the extremely few things he’s done right.
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Hey, I agree with him on something.
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Just sayin’ -
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Anyone laying odds that we get slot machines in all those facilities?
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2:20 time stamp -
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Dartmouth, Massachusetts
This looks like a beautiful place to go to college.
Photos by Rhode Island PBS
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Another Umass campus with lots of brutalist buildings - I was there last year and captures these pics - interesting and a bit dystopian.
uMass Amherst
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I would like to see more, especially the second building. I know I am in the minority but I like a lot of Brutilist architecture. At the very least one must admit that most is not boring.
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Other than potentially cool vantages for photos, it looks like a prison and the interiors probably are devoid of natural light.
It seems a lot of universities have the misfortune of having ugly brutalist edifices for classrooms and other facilities.
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Agree - brutalist buildings look really cool in pictures - but, at least for me, they feel really oppressive in real life - they kinda sucked all the life around them.
I think a lot of northeastern colleges went from quaint and European to dystopian
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They had a meeting about preserving it because the architecture being…you know it’s different
Too bad, it looks like it would make a cool arts space but man, you would have to burn a LOT of Paolo Santo to cleanse this space.
here are some cool pictures:
DEZEEN
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Thanks Alemel. That copper building is a perfect example of BIG’s talent shining through on the smaller projects, skyscrapers, not so much. Obviously not Brutilist, but creative and exciting and I might say; architectural eye candy. Bravo to BIG.
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Exactly. BIG’s skyscrapers are lame, but this is cool as a large piece of sculpture.
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It’s exceptional. 
Too bad it’s such an ugly building.
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Maybe they have stopped building their own stores and instead renting existing existing empty space. There are certainly lots of places to rent for low rents right now.
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