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<p>Neither Sather Tower nor Sather Gate are “buildings”. Sather Tower is technically a building but its not a “building” in the sense of how Doe, Hilgard, or Wheeler are, which were the subjects I were comparing in my previous post.</p>

<p>Doe is a Berkeley icon, being the main library in a very famous library system.</p>

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<p>‘mission-style influences,’ excuse me, lol?</p>

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<p>UCLA’s Kaufman Hall is Italian Romanesque style, and was originally built as the Women’s Gymnasium and Dance Studio. As far as gymnasiums go, it is totally magnificent. It was recently remodeled on the inside, and has a new dance studio with a “sprung floor”. Very nice both inside and out.</p>

<p>[UCLA</a> - Glorya Kaufman Hall](<a href=“http://www.masoncontractors.org/aboutmasonry/imagegallery/display.php?id=10095]UCLA”>http://www.masoncontractors.org/aboutmasonry/imagegallery/display.php?id=10095)</p>

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<p>*Here’s a picture of UCLA’s Kaufmann.
[Kaufman</a> Hall - University of California Los Angeles](<a href=“http://www.you-are-here.com/building/kaufman.html]Kaufman”>http://www.you-are-here.com/building/kaufman.html)</p>

<p>A sore attempt at a traditional campus look with mission-style influences…replete with candy cane stripes. OMG</p>

<p>‘mission-style influences,’ excuse me, lol? *</p>

<p>The arches are influenced by the California missions (which have southern European influences as well). The candy cane stripes are influenced by gingerbread houses made at Christmas. If you look closed, Gretl can be seen peeking out a window.</p>

<p>[UCLA</a> - Glorya Kaufman Hall](<a href=“http://www.masoncontractors.org/aboutmasonry/imagegallery/display.php?id=10095]UCLA”>http://www.masoncontractors.org/aboutmasonry/imagegallery/display.php?id=10095)</p>

<p>Another view that makes shows this cartoonish building</p>

<p>I think this was the main influence of the building…
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<p>I wanted to see a triple (double?)- nested quote…</p>

<p>No, disagree…</p>

<p>I think of the classic California Mission, not any one particuarly in mind - all are very magnificent, as being more white or lighter colored stucco, with red-tiled roofs. I think of them as being more low to the ground, except for bell tower, and more sprawling, many attachments, ells, or wings, I’d guess one might call them. I’m sure this had to do with materials on hand, maybe readily manufactured in the area. There are undoubtedly variations on this theme.</p>

<p>UCLA’s Kaufman hall is more of a vertical structure, at least compared to the CA missions. Kind of a stand alone structure like classic European style, in this case, Italian. </p>

<p>Candy cane? I’m sure some Euro architecture employed this. I don’t think Kaufman has any structure in mind, isn’t a replica like Royce, but I”m sure the designers had that style in mind from other structures. </p>

<p>Many architectural styles also employed arches; they wouldn’t be exclusive to CA mission styles.</p>

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Its fine if you don’t like Kaufmann but please do not feign knowledge of art history… You’re making my ears bleed.</p>

<p>Ironically, your link of some pictures of Kaufman indicate it is a
“MCAA International Excellence in Masonry Award Winner”</p>

<p>-.-</p>

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<p>UCBerkeley has the ugliest campus…</p>

<p>UCLA is great looking. UCSD’s library is kickass.
UCR and UCM are not great…</p>

<p>UCSB is the prettiest. I’d personally go for UCSB or UCLA.</p>

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<p>UCLA’s campus is not consistent throughout the campus. UCLA Kaufman’s interior is probably the best of all the buildings at UCLA. In addition to that none of UCLA’s building’s interiors are really consistent with the exterior, except the college library…and even then it’s a matter of not getting distracted by the old metal book shelves.</p>

<p>Although I can’t speak for all UCs or Cal States, CSUN’s campus is definitely up there. It doesn’t look like a traditional “University” but I appreciate its aesthetics more so than other schools.</p>

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<p>*The arches are influenced by the California missions (which have southern European influences as well). The candy cane stripes are influenced by gingerbread houses made at Christmas. If you look closely, Gretl can be seen peeking out a window.</p>

<p>Its fine if you don’t like Kaufmann but please do not feign knowledge of art history… You’re making my ears bleed.*</p>

<p>OMG…you need to go find yourself a sense of humor. A lack of one makes the brain coagulate.</p>

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<p>not in terms of facts or appreciation of classic greek goth style which i like but Cal is ugly haha. SC, SB, and LA, hell even SD, SF, Davis and even Stanford plus the many of the CSU’s are prettier campuses.</p>

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<p>How about at night?</p>

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