DrTorch Wrote:Classic Jeffersonian "red brick" may look nice, and you can maintain consistency; but you might be surprised how boring a place like UMd looks, despite maintaining "consistency".

I have to agree there. As much as I like visiting Oxnard, the red brick gets boring in a hurry. I'll take it over BG's campus anyday, though.

I also agree that BG has started to make an effort, despite a long way to go, which is why that spaceship design is so baffling.

BleedOrange Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:In keeping with the rest of BG's architecture, will the Sebo Center be designed in a completely different style from the stadium so as to clash horribly with it? 

Mr. Asshat, that sterile, multi-color chaired, shag-carpet-on-the-wall, cubic concrete dump you call Savage Hall is no day at the beach, either.

Curious, where's your avatar from? That isn't actually you, is it?

I'm discussing art with folks that don't even recognize Travis Bickle???

mossmaidi Wrote:Being totally objective here, UT's campus setting is nicer than BG's. But if you put their campus with the landscaping & scenery into BG's environment, small-town setting, I think combined we'd have one of the nicer campuses, environments in the country!! I like BG's buildings though, diverse they are.

Schad, wy don't you put up a front-view picture of University Hall when there is greenery and shrubs growing on it during the fall. I think from outside that has to be the nicest looking building on our campus and one of the nicer looking ones in the MAC.

Why would you take one of the nicer urban campuses anywhere, and plop it in a cornfield next to an interstate?

You can walk across UT's entire campus and nobody will look you in the face and say hi. It is a much more friendly atmosphere in BG. It's all a part of that small-town atmosphere.

mossmaidi Wrote:Being totally objective here, UT's campus setting is nicer than BG's. But if you put their campus with the landscaping & scenery into BG's environment, small-town setting, I think combined we'd have one of the nicer campuses, environments in the country!! I like BG's buildings though, diverse they are.

Schad, wy don't you put up a front-view picture of University Hall when there is greenery and shrubs growing on it during the fall. I think from outside that has to be the nicest looking building on our campus and one of the nicer looking ones in the MAC.

It's seen better days.

As for this:



That went up in the late 1960s. It is the student services building.

Campus lore says it looks like a slide carosuel because campus is supposed to revolve around the students.

I'm not sure about that -- but it is located about midway between the western edge of campus and Interstate 75. It is a center of campus, and the design seems to reflect that.

The area below was originally envisioned to work something like a Greek forum. The windows in the lower level can be removed for concerts and what not.

Back in the spring of 1970, when four Kent State students were massacred, many BGSU students gathered in this forum to discuss how to respond. Some advocated trying to form a blockade of I-75, but that plan was never carried out.

The forum gradually fell into disuse, and I expect many students don't even recognize its potential for mass gatherings any more. In that sense, the building is flawed, I guess, like many of that era.

On the other hand, it is a striking building. On visual terms alone, I like it.

Kit-Cat Wrote:I've been inside BG's library and I'd think the floors are too small in square footage.

OU's library has only 8 stories but each floor is triple the size of BG. The library rests on a hillside, with one floor underground so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb even though its located on our historic college green.

I agree the library is too small. They do have a separate math & science library, however. And that helps quite a bit.

Give the BG athletic department and administration some credit--they're doing something different. If the plan for the Sebo Center were something like NIU's-- very nice but architecturally unnoteworthy, no one would be saying a thing.

And here's what I predict will happen to BG's football and basketball facilities in the future.

1-The seats that have been removed by the way were wood bleachers.

2-Already planned in conjunction with the Sebo Center is a locker room renovation and expansion in the East side of the existing stadium. Both projects should be ready for the 2006 season.

3-A new convocation center with a basketball arena will be built to the South of the football stadium. It will harmonize architecturally with the new Sebo Center in the North endzone. Also it will butt up again the football stadium and will include or leave room for expanded permanent seating for football.

4-The existing football stadium will be given a makeover which again will harmonize architecturally with the new Sebo Center and the new convocation center. Included in this makeover will be renovated concession areas and restrooms.

5-A new press tower including luxury boxes will be constructed above the West side of the existing stadium. This is one of reasons the light towers built a couple of years ago stand so high above the stadium. Again, the new press tower will harmonize architecturally with the new Seco Center.

As you probably know, BG already has one of the better indoor practice facilities in the Midwest. It also already has a Student Recreation Center so the projects I have described are for athletics.

Lest you forget, I will repeat what I said above--these are predictions on my part.

The completion of these additions and improvements will result in giving BG what probably will be the best football and basketball facilities in the MAC.





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Oddball Wrote:

BleedOrange Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:In keeping with the rest of BG's architecture, will the Sebo Center be designed in a completely different style from the stadium so as to clash horribly with it? 

Mr. Asshat, that sterile, multi-color chaired, shag-carpet-on-the-wall, cubic concrete dump you call Savage Hall is no day at the beach, either.

Curious, where's your avatar from? That isn't actually you, is it?

I'm discussing art with folks that don't even recognize Travis Bickle???

You talkin' to me?

Schadenfreude Wrote:

mossmaidi Wrote:Being totally objective here, UT's campus setting is nicer than BG's. But if you put their campus with the landscaping & scenery into BG's environment, small-town setting, I think combined we'd have one of the nicer campuses, environments in the country!! I like BG's buildings though, diverse they are.

Schad, wy don't you put up a front-view picture of University Hall when there is greenery and shrubs growing on it during the fall. I think from outside that has to be the nicest looking building on our campus and one of the nicer looking ones in the MAC.

It's seen better days.

As for this:



That went up in the late 1960s. It is the student services building.

Campus lore says it looks like a slide carosuel because campus is supposed to revolve around the students.

I'm not sure about that -- but it is located about midway between the western edge of campus and Interstate 75. It is a center of campus, and the design seems to reflect that.

The area below was originally envisioned to work something like a Greek forum. The windows in the lower level can be removed for concerts and what not.

Back in the spring of 1970, when four Kent State students were massacred, many BGSU students gathered in this forum to discuss how to respond. Some advocated trying to form a blockade of I-75, but that plan was never carried out.

The forum gradually fell into disuse, and I expect many students don't even recognize its potential for mass gatherings any more. In that sense, the building is flawed, I guess, like many of that era.

On the other hand, it is a striking building. On visual terms alone, I like it.

Is it me or does the student service building look like an air filter or a spaceship

mossmaidi Wrote:You can walk across UT's entire campus and nobody will look you in the face and say hi. It is a much more friendly atmosphere in BG. It's all a part of that small-town atmosphere.

Yes. You'd have to be kidding if you'd rather go to UT's commuter campus over BG's college town. BG is as close to the shopping areas of Perrysburg as what Toledo is, so its not as if your losing anything you would have otherwise by going to BG.

One of the mistakes BG made over the years is building the football stadium too far from campus.

And It would be nicer if the campus was closer, and more integrated with downtown BG which has a very nice college centered downtown. It doesn't have the bars of OU, but it makes up for it with some very solid restaurants that OU really lacks.

At OU we've built our academic buildings right up to the front door of our football stadium (Peden in background):

Oddball Wrote:

BleedOrange Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:In keeping with the rest of BG's architecture, will the Sebo Center be designed in a completely different style from the stadium so as to clash horribly with it? 

Mr. Asshat, that sterile, multi-color chaired, shag-carpet-on-the-wall, cubic concrete dump you call Savage Hall is no day at the beach, either.

Curious, where's your avatar from? That isn't actually you, is it?

I'm discussing art with folks that don't even recognize Travis Bickle???

You talkin' to me?

Santa Fe Falcon Wrote:Give the BG athletic department and administration some credit--they're doing something different. If the plan for the Sebo Center were something like NIU's-- very nice but architecturally unnoteworthy, no one would be saying a thing.

NIU is getting more building by making it less dramatic design-wise. It'll look good in the endzone, and most importantly will be functional.

I say it again - that building looks very nice. Next to the Doyt, it's gonna make you wish you had torn down the Doyt, first. A bit like a Cadillac in a trailer park. I'll give you credit, though - I'd take a Cadillac about any day.

Santa Fe Falcon Wrote:5-A new press tower including luxury boxes will be constructed above the West side of the existing stadium. This is one of reasons the light towers built a couple of years ago stand so high above the stadium. Again, the new press tower will harmonize architecturally with the new Seco Center.

I've figured this had to be the next logical step.

But I've neither seen nor heard nor read anythig about this.

Do you have a source?

Oddball Wrote:

mossmaidi Wrote:Being totally objective here, UT's campus setting is nicer than BG's. But if you put their campus with the landscaping & scenery into BG's environment, small-town setting, I think combined we'd have one of the nicer campuses, environments in the country!! I like BG's buildings though, diverse they are.

Schad, wy don't you put up a front-view picture of University Hall when there is greenery and shrubs growing on it during the fall. I think from outside that has to be the nicest looking building on our campus and one of the nicer looking ones in the MAC.

Why would you take one of the nicer urban campuses anywhere, and plop it in a cornfield next to an interstate?

What the hades does an interstate have to do with anything? UT's campus is almost as close to I-475 and I-75 as BG's is to I-75...just because the athletic fields stretch to the interstate does not mean anything...besides, if you had any clue at all you would realize that BG's campus was there looooong before I-75 was completed.

Redwingtom Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:

mossmaidi Wrote:Being totally objective here, UT's campus setting is nicer than BG's. But if you put their campus with the landscaping & scenery into BG's environment, small-town setting, I think combined we'd have one of the nicer campuses, environments in the country!! I like BG's buildings though, diverse they are.

Schad, wy don't you put up a front-view picture of University Hall when there is greenery and shrubs growing on it during the fall. I think from outside that has to be the nicest looking building on our campus and one of the nicer looking ones in the MAC.

Why would you take one of the nicer urban campuses anywhere, and plop it in a cornfield next to an interstate?

What the hades does an interstate have to do with anything? UT's campus is almost as close to I-475 and I-75 as BG's is to I-75...just because the athletic fields stretch to the interstate does not mean anything...besides, if you had any clue at all you would realize that BG's campus was there looooong before I-75 was completed.

Man, anger makes you even less lucid than usual. Come on, breathe, will ya?

Rightupinthere Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:

BleedOrange Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:In keeping with the rest of BG's architecture, will the Sebo Center be designed in a completely different style from the stadium so as to clash horribly with it? 

Mr. Asshat, that sterile, multi-color chaired, shag-carpet-on-the-wall, cubic concrete dump you call Savage Hall is no day at the beach, either.

Curious, where's your avatar from? That isn't actually you, is it?

I'm discussing art with folks that don't even recognize Travis Bickle???

You talkin' to me?

How's everything in the pimp business?

I work anytime, anywhere.

From what I've seen of these drawings, the Sebo Center is gonna rock. Doyt Perry Stadium was built with the possiblity of expansion on either side....ala another level.

I think the Doyt has more renovations coming in the future.

Oddball Wrote:

BleedOrange Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:In keeping with the rest of BG's architecture, will the Sebo Center be designed in a completely different style from the stadium so as to clash horribly with it? 

Mr. Asshat, that sterile, multi-color chaired, shag-carpet-on-the-wall, cubic concrete dump you call Savage Hall is no day at the beach, either.

Curious, where's your avatar from? That isn't actually you, is it?

I'm discussing art with folks that don't even recognize Travis Bickle???

Heh? That doesn't look like DeNiro to me. Are you sure you know what you're talking about?

BleedOrange Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:

BleedOrange Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:In keeping with the rest of BG's architecture, will the Sebo Center be designed in a completely different style from the stadium so as to clash horribly with it? 

Mr. Asshat, that sterile, multi-color chaired, shag-carpet-on-the-wall, cubic concrete dump you call Savage Hall is no day at the beach, either.

Curious, where's your avatar from? That isn't actually you, is it?

I'm discussing art with folks that don't even recognize Travis Bickle???

Heh? That doesn't look like DeNiro to me. Are you sure you know what you're talking about?

Listen, you ******ers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the *****, the dogs, the filth, the ******. Here is a man who stood up.