Wow, I find it amazing that we have the need for that much additional housing. I guess it is a good thing.
For what it’s worth, the design is butt ugly, in my humble opinion.
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One of my pet peeves is how individual architects will design buildings that don’t have a connection to the existing architecture. It seems like pretty much every master plan, ever, talks about creating a “sense of place”, meaning an identity. When you see the various architecture on campus, each building can be unique, but should have a connection to the overall feeling/ambience of the campus. This one does not.
In any event, I’m not a fan of that light yellowish color brick as it never seems to age well. If the architect had presented this to me, I have sent it back for a re-design, at least on the exterior. It looks like he blew off the dust on his designs for a county incarceration facility, added an atrium and said “good enough.”