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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF: Cool-ass building.
 
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Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

That really reminds me of the DC Metro, but cooler

I'm imagining that was the entirety of the design meeting now.


The Cathedral of Learning belongs ITT. Another Goon put it far better than I in the old Architectural Failures Thread:

Accretionist posted:

Palate Cleanser: The Cathedral of Learning










I look at that, and then I look at this thread, and I think, "Don't trust any architect under 130,." "Why?"

It's part of the state university in Pittsburgh and was built in the 30s for $10m, or, in 2015 dollars, ~$130m. If I ever win a very large lottery, America's getting another one.

It is also the tallest educational structure in the western hemisphere and was apparently the site of some good powerwasher porn in 2007 when this happened:




Interior shot:



I feel like it's straight out of some utopian alternate reality where threads like this don't exist. Look at it. Look at it.
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