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Originally Posted by Atomic Glee
Really, that building seems perfectly fine. It makes a good background building and it seems friendly enough. (I'd have gone for less solid glass walls, but whatever.)
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Yeah, more technicolor precast brick would have really saved it. The building is barely half glass and you call it "solid." Then again, I usually fine your opinions wrong. Calling modernism a "disease"? 'scuse me I'm gonna go throw up.
See it in person.
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Originally Posted by blockski
Perhaps it's just the planner in me that loves the density and the mixed use (I still haven't been back to Madison to see this building completed - it was under construction last time I was there), but I don't think it's that bad. Furthermore, this project wasn't totally a university effort, right? That was private land before. It's not meant to be a landmark building in the way other academic buildings are - it's a nice, solid, if unremarkable contribution to the fabric of the city.
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Oh, I never argued that. But visually, conceptually, and architecturally, its disgusting. Most of the stuff being in Madison is reminscient of this. It contributes to the fabric of mediocrity. The precast brick is discusting. THREE COLORS OF IT? They didn't even disguise the seems well. Madison needs to get its nuts back, and the University should be leading this effort, constructing more than one building a year now...
I'm sick of seeing Madison have potential and give in to mediocrity. The new Smith res hall? The New Ogg? USquare? Grainger addition? All are boring @ss precast junk that doesn't contribute the the fabric (with the exception of Usquare on that, but it falls far short of where it should be...they have minor positives, but still). Even some of the nicer buildings, like the new Microbio building/Chem are sketchty on the layout inside. The Law Library addition is the really only gold University buidling since all this construction in the past decade.
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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280
The only thing that bothers me about that UW building is that its so blunt. This is mainly because it reaches the Madison height limit and is forced to cut off. They need to lift that restriction for the city more than 3 or 4 blocks away from the Capitol. Madision would have quite the skyline if it had no restrictions. Downtown would be forced to go up since everything has to be crammed onto the tiny isthmus.
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That certainly contributes too it. I've tried to do my work while there and there are plenty of propoals to pass it. All get struct down though and I've gotten into plenty of arguments with peeps there trying to convince them that the city can be better with some density and proper urban planning (which the city is practically completely devoid of.)
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That was pretty funny. Sometimes a contemporary contrast can be striking, but uhh, this one has no relation what so ever, its just odd. Perhaps a wider angle picture?....
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