Post by Logan on Jun 21, 2016 5:09:23 GMT -6
As UW-Madison plans for future, well-known 1960s buildings could face wrecking ball
They are some of the most architecturally infamous buildings on the UW-Madison campus.
“Just a box,” was how scientist Zhumin Zhang described the McArdle Cancer Research Building, a hulking 11-story concrete facility with small windows on two of its sides and none on the others. “It’s not very pleasant.”
“Kind of ugly,” junior Sydney Tishim said of the Mosse Humanities Building, where she has attended lectures and discussion sections in classrooms she described as “enclosed and kind of claustrophobic.”
As for the exterior, with its slabs of concrete and narrow windows, Tishim said, “It’s artistic in a way, I guess.”
Read more: host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/as-uw-madison-plans-for-future-well-known-s-buildings/article_de4cb151-4e67-53dc-8a20-3ec9256ae789.html
They are some of the most architecturally infamous buildings on the UW-Madison campus.
“Just a box,” was how scientist Zhumin Zhang described the McArdle Cancer Research Building, a hulking 11-story concrete facility with small windows on two of its sides and none on the others. “It’s not very pleasant.”
“Kind of ugly,” junior Sydney Tishim said of the Mosse Humanities Building, where she has attended lectures and discussion sections in classrooms she described as “enclosed and kind of claustrophobic.”
As for the exterior, with its slabs of concrete and narrow windows, Tishim said, “It’s artistic in a way, I guess.”
Read more: host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/as-uw-madison-plans-for-future-well-known-s-buildings/article_de4cb151-4e67-53dc-8a20-3ec9256ae789.html