What is the worst looking uni?

And, to rub salt in the wound, if you look for Google images 'University of Sussex' one of the first images is of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge which looks a charming little beauty:

http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/images/CambridgeUniversitySidneySussexCollege.jpg

Well, what if this became the new Oxbridge?

Well, what if this became the new Oxbridge?

University of Kent




University of East Anglia

Go on then, show us how pretty your university is you hypocrite...

Seen Jonathan Meades's programme on Aberdeen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNbc7NeW3Wg

Nottingham.



Who knows what they were thinking. Looks like something out of the ****ing Tellytubbies.

I'm pretty sure one of those buildings isn't on the campus.

And anyway, there is like one really pretty quad and the rest is ugly. Probably like most unis.

If Oxford looked like UEA would people still class it as one of the best universities in the country/world/universe?

Why bother making comments on something you know nothing about? Aberdeen isn't a 'campus' university, it's a 'city' university. It's the unification of two seperate universities, Marischal College and King's College, which merged to form the current University of Aberdeen.

King's College is based in Old Aberdeen, and much that's where most of the current university is based. Marischal College is based in New Aberdeen, and was the former medical school, though the medicine students now do most of their work at Forester Hill.

One way Aberdeen does resemble a 'campus' university though is that most of it is quite close together and tight knit.




I think the 'quad' you're talking about would be the King's quad, which is indeed very pretty. But outside of that, there's New King's, Elphinstone Hall, the Old Town House, the Old Brewery. the Powis Gate towers, etc.

Sure, we have our share of ugly buildings as well, such as the Macrobert building and Taylor building. Even Cambridge and Oxford have ugly buildings. But overall, Aberdeen's got lots of very old and pretty buildings and most of it is based in the historic little 'town' of Old Aberdeen with its cobbled pavements and old houses.

Most of Southampton uni is really nice, apart from a couple of buildings - this building, which I think is the maths building, being the worst.

Whilst at Cambridge one can dream of the the backs whilst looking at the Austin Building




Or the Computing Laboratory Tower

They look relatively good to me. The first, for instance, is a particular type of understated 1930s type modernism. The brickwork looks typically Cambridge. The second (the tower) looks like classic Mies van der Rohe modernism.

This is exactly contemporary to the first of the Cambridge buildings and is of far better quality.



If you know Cambridge, the New Museums Site, from which both my original illustrations came is a terrible agglomeration of buildings from the first half of the 20th century thrown together without any regard for the setting of the buildings. One can take or leave Van der Rohe, and I would rather leave him, but he was keen on the setting of his buildings and would never have done what Cambridge has done with the buildings I originally showed.