That the thing, it's not so much a lack of money, but a lack of soul that gets us buildings that are missing the human dimension. Zero personality.
And a lack of guts, I might add. As demonstrated in a place like Ann Arbor where the U has plenty of money but seems afraid to build anything interesting. The message conveyed over the past 20+ yrs with all their blend-in boxes and expensive, boring, generic neo-classicism is, "We have no imagination and we're too timid to think beyond bland, so let's cling to our glorious past. Go Blue!"
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