DON’T Call It a Library

Can we call it a fortress?

First artists sketches of the future George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU from Talking Points Memo. Seven renderings are shown.

November 20, 2009 by Uncategorized 4

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4 Responses

  1. Anonymous says:
    November 20, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Throwback?
    Wow. At first look, it appears as if the architects are going for a quasi-international-1960’s-feel.

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  2. Anonymous says:
    November 20, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    SMU’s architecture
    SMU has pretty strict architectural standards. There is a story that a former campus President was touring the place for the first time and remarked that he had never seen a parking garage done in the Georgian style until he arrived at SMU.

    Apparently, the architect wanted to do a much more ‘modern’ style of building and was told that it had to at least look like *part* of the campus.

    This was the result.

    I’ve been a part of enough new building design and seen enough ‘conceptual’ drawings that I know that they only have a passing nod at what ends up existing in reality though, so I’m withholding judgement.

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  3. Anonymous says:
    November 20, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    this would be better
    http://www.goodnightbush.com/librarium/

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  4. Chuck says:
    November 20, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    ground-breaking collections
    It will also be the first library in America to feature English As A Second Language books for native English readers.

    wait for it …

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