Valhalla

I don't understand how midtown isn't crawling with highrises and young professionals. It's right on the metro and in the geographic center of everything important. It seemed like four of five years ago the sky was the limit, but now it seems like developers won't touch midtown with a ten foot poll.

Wow they really knocked it out of the ballpark with this. The facade is really pretty and the amount of common space is astounding considering that the current building has 0 common areas. This will be a badly-needed upgrade for hanszen, which is typically considered the college with the least amount of identity. After this gets built, Hanzsen and sid will have the nicest facilities. Lovett is officially at the bottom of the pile.

I won't miss new hanszen. It's just another fugly post-war building to bite the dust. It's amazing to me how we're tearing down building from 1957, but not 1916. The post-war era truly was a dark age for architecture. New, new hanszen isn't a gorgeous building but it's definitely easier to look at. The sallyport is a cool feature but I can't tell where it goes. It shows up in one of the renderings but not the 3d model. Someone please call me when they decide to tear down fondren.

I have. If that's viewed as part of the "campus style," then I guess therein lies the problem. For instance, how hard would it be to just replicate the building next too it, which is built in what the campus style should be, aka, byzantine revival and not brutalist revival. The new engineering building also completely breaks up the continuity of the facade/palisade wrapping around the quad.

I think Lebron was a great president but not when it comes to architecture. Most of the buildings built under his watch are moo/uninspiring. The only traditional style building we got was the new opera hall, and even there, it seems like a lot was left on the table. The new engineering building is almost (though not completely) a throwback to the cold war. Hopefully, an administration change will bring about a new trend in campus architecture for the better.