new Northwest Corner Building.

admissionsgeek
Wed, 19 May 2010 09:58:12 +0000

wifey, bostock has a significant amount of glass, and does a sort of lerner like replication thing without necessarily being 100% faithful to the gothic.

and you certainly can do a sort of half-job in architecture for the sake of consistency, but that is not what columbia wanted.

by hiring moneo they were in essence saying they didn’t want a replication.

so coulda-woulda-shoulda isn’t the game to play, they didn’t, and in the end i don’t mind.

the facilities will be what matters, it will completely reopen the northwest side of campus, with an actual entrance to campus that isn’t a gate, a new cafe and lounge area. a new science library, new labs.

ilovebagels, do you think it really changes the same main quad? i don’t think so, which is probably what matters most. if they blew up hamilton and replaced it with the building, then we’d be talking something else.