Architectural Excrescences
I was walking over to the post office on 14th street, and my eye was caught by this ridiculous building.
Whatever possessed the architect to include one (1) column, and that at the very top of the building? Hey! It's classical! Of course, he got the proportions of the column wrong. And it's stupid. Neoclassical design can result in some impressive, and beautiful buildings. This is just neostalinist pancake architecture lite. Crap.
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Next time you're up in the
Next time you're up in the frozen northwastes I'll show you a building on campus which, while not nearly as boldly, arrogantly ugly as the one you photographed, is nonetheless strikingly bad.
It fits the scale of the campus, and looks like it belongs here inasmuch as it is nominally made of brick and someone thought to throw some ivy on it. But the brick is just the facade, and the ivy is clearly an afterthought, cultivated and placed by man. No naturally-occuring flora would touch that structure.
So it's not the size, it's not the (obvious) fakery, it's that it has so many styles in it, around it, on top of it, that it looks nothing at all like a bold inventive bit of architectural wit than a random occurrence.
It's as if two other campus buildings, who were lovely yet much too closely related, got it on one night and made this mongrel accident.
That's really dumb, but for
That's really dumb, but for some reason I like it.
It's like a collosal one-eyed giant or something, staring at me with its face of stone.
I think you're right that it's classical but it has a sort of gothic feel to it too. Sort of church-like.