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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
University campuses that expanded in the 1970s are saddled with a plethora of fugly brutalist structures. Western's campus is generally very beautiful and most of the buildings have stone surfaces and elegant neo-gothic architecture, and then you've got the extremely fugly Social Science Centre and Weldon Library building, which ruin the whole thing.
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Queen's has a few brutalist buildings from the 1970s. However there was very intense backlash against them from the Queen's community (faculty, students, alumni, etc) who felt, rightly, that they ruined the historic feel of the campus, and after a handful of brutalist structures were built, the university folded and in 1979 adopted a rule that all new structures at the university must be clad in limestone or a visually comparable alternative.
Most of these brutalist buildings are out of the way in the corners of the campus... except for this one, Jeffery Hall:
(Source: Queens University Math and Statistics Department)
which is located smack dab in the middle of the campus, on the main boulevard which is otherwise 100% pre-1920 stone construction. It ruins it so much that the university is actually planning on rebuilding it in the near future with a stone exterior, although no funding is yet forthcoming.
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