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yeah well, those pre-cast panels are hideous, in relativity to what COULD have been. they should have (in the most general sense) went with a brick construction to match most of the academic buildings (ie cooper through engineering). the eye for design is painfully lacking in the development of the campus.. think thats glaringly obvious to anyone who has a broad understanding of the different collegiate styles in America.

Aesthetics are pretty far from a strong suit at USF. Really don't know why they ever went the route of the pre-fab's that we see in the new dorms and most of the athletic expansion. The "architecture" (and I use that word pretty loosly) that we have used in recent construction has the attraction level of play-ground equipment. While it's obviously too late to really validate any sort of complaining, I wish the longterm planners could have taken in design uniformity and a degree of "professional" creativity into consideration when they went on their expansion benders. I mean really.. who looks at the final designs for a lot of these buildings (cough Corbett, Baseball/Softball, Juniper/Poplar, Maple Apts, Morsani football Complex) or my biggest pet peeve, the chia-bull outside of the Marshall Center($25,000+ for that embarassment), and thinks that these are the best means of spending their construction budgets. I've actually come to despise the construction company that seems to do all of our expansion work, because I feel like they are hustling us by not offering a higher quality service for us to spend our money on. While it has some serious high points, our campus as a whole seems like it was made in a "point and drop" SimCity game. I hear lots of students make comments on this. Just like our student body, the campus has no obvious binding factor, and in turn it is very hard to develop a sort of empathetic connection to it.

you sir, are on point. look at that thing soak up those rays! proof is in the photos, people.

exterior's coming along handily as well; surprised no pictures of that progress have really surfaced.. real appealing neutral color scheme that flows with all of the new surrounding athletec construction. the entrances are developing somewhat also, functionally and aethetically. never thought I would see the day, but the "dome" finally got it's long overdue sponge bath to boot.. seeing the 10 or so power washers belaying around on the arena was bizarre.