Quote Originally Posted by bailey View Post
It's gone and walls are going up on the rebuild .

Look regardless of the build... it needs to be maintained. small problems become big...big problems become unfix-able. Which is better? tearing down portions of a building to slap on a new addition or just blowing the whole thing out? Finney looked like a prison. MLK wasnt much better. The new schools look like they will be outstanding. [[Cass Tech should never have come down... but that is a different debate.)

I went to MSU... it went through a building boom in the 1970s. many of the buildings from that era are drab cinder block boxes with crappy single pane windows and terrible layouts. look at the schools out in Macomb county that are from the late 70s early 80s. Dull lifeless carbon copies of each other. Or closer to east side, Compare GP South with GP North. North is a dreadful building that only after several face lifts now at least remotely resembles a school instead of a prison complex. GP South suffers a terrible 1970s library and classroom addition, but at least that was around the back. Institutional builds in the 1970s were by and large, just atrocious.
Thanks for the info Bailey....

The recent additions of GPS are in stark contrast to the additions you mention.... they complement the original.

For ugly buildings... few are as bad as WSU's 1950s era G. Flint Purdy Library.... butt ugly!! And so is the recent addition to Old Main.... what were they thinking???