Our very own Touchdown Jesus?
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Let’s look for ways to be less like notre dame yeah?
Our very own Touchdown Jesus?
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Photoshop wizards please get to work on this and superimpose the chief over it and put it on the side of the FB Performance Center. Maybe add in little tiny font something like "Notre Dame can Suck It".Our very own Touchdown Jesus?
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Photoshop wizards please get to work on this and superimpose the chief over it and put it on the side of the FB Performance Center. Maybe add in little tiny font something like "Notre Dame can Suck It".
A little late to be complaining about the location of the facility when it's nearly completed. At any rate, functionally it was easily the best and only place to put it for it to tie in with the existing indoor practice facility and the stadium itself which has it's own facilities still. At least they have made other improvements to the stadium which have enhanced it's usability and appearance, most notably Grange Grove on the west side. The same can't be said for many other places across the country. It will be even better when someday, somehow, they finally do the full South End Zone renovation/addition and get rid of the tinker toy stands. Hopefully it will be sometime in the next decade...I'm sure it is a nice facility and all. But as I feared, it is a monstrosity of an eyesore dropped on campus much like most of the latest construction projects on campus or on Green Street. Less open space all around. "Cramped" is the new architecture design on campus.
The facility blocks sight lines to about 1/4-1/3 of the columns on one side of the stadium and largely blocks out views of the stadium at all if you are to the east of Memorial Stadium. The stadium is a nice looking, traditional facility. So we're dropping buildings right next to it to apparently ensure we can't see some of the better architecture on campus anymore.
I have a real problem as an alum with the University's unwillingness to preserve various traditions so there is at least some constants and traditions for alums to share over time and with their families. This is just another example. Bigger and better and to heck with trying to do it in some way that preserves the past and tradition.
I'm sure it is a nice facility and all. But as I feared, it is a monstrosity of an eyesore dropped on campus much like most of the latest construction projects on campus or on Green Street. Less open space all around. "Cramped" is the new architecture design on campus.
The facility blocks sight lines to about 1/4-1/3 of the columns on one side of the stadium and largely blocks out views of the stadium at all if you are to the east of Memorial Stadium. The stadium is a nice looking, traditional facility. So we're dropping buildings right next to it to apparently ensure we can't see some of the better architecture on campus anymore.
I have a real problem as an alum with the University's unwillingness to preserve various traditions so there is at least some constants and traditions for alums to share over time and with their families. This is just another example. Bigger and better and to heck with trying to do it in some way that preserves the past and tradition.
You think this is a monstrosity? At my second campus, Notre Dame, we're getting close to finishing our own new performance center, which dwarfs the new Illinois one. while matching the rest of the campuses architecture. You can see it from all over campus. Here is designed vs current(ish). I think if Illinois' fits in everything that ND's does and does it smaller and more compact, that is better. I think ND's is excessive.I'm sure it is a nice facility and all. But as I feared, it is a monstrosity of an eyesore dropped on campus much like most of the latest construction projects on campus or on Green Street. Less open space all around. "Cramped" is the new architecture design on campus.
The facility blocks sight lines to about 1/4-1/3 of the columns on one side of the stadium and largely blocks out views of the stadium at all if you are to the east of Memorial Stadium. The stadium is a nice looking, traditional facility. So we're dropping buildings right next to it to apparently ensure we can't see some of the better architecture on campus anymore.
I have a real problem as an alum with the University's unwillingness to preserve various traditions so there is at least some constants and traditions for alums to share over time and with their families. This is just another example. Bigger and better and to heck with trying to do it in some way that preserves the past and tradition.
I'm sure it is a nice facility and all. But as I feared, it is a monstrosity of an eyesore dropped on campus much like most of the latest construction projects on campus or on Green Street. Less open space all around. "Cramped" is the new architecture design on campus.
The facility blocks sight lines to about 1/4-1/3 of the columns on one side of the stadium and largely blocks out views of the stadium at all if you are to the east of Memorial Stadium. The stadium is a nice looking, traditional facility. So we're dropping buildings right next to it to apparently ensure we can't see some of the better architecture on campus anymore.
I have a real problem as an alum with the University's unwillingness to preserve various traditions so there is at least some constants and traditions for alums to share over time and with their families. This is just another example. Bigger and better and to heck with trying to do it in some way that preserves the past and tradition.
I have a real problem as an alum with the University's unwillingness to preserve various traditions so there is at least some constants and traditions for alums to share over time and with their families.
Wondering if those columns might be temporary supports until more construction is completed.
I bet 99.9% of the people who see Smith Center will think it's named after Lovie Smith. I guess $20 million wasn't enough to add Betty, let alone Henry Dale &. Maybe Whitman priced it at $4 million per letter hoping to get another $64 million from the Smith Foundation. That man is shrewd.I know it says "Smith Center" on the rendering, but I believe it's short for "The Lovie Smith Center for Kids Who Want To Learn To Play Football Good and Do Other Things Good Too". Or the LSCFKWWTLTPFGADOTGT for short. Just couldn't quite fit the letters on the building.
It amazes me that people honestly think we should build buildings that look 150 years old as if that makes them
"look" like or fit natural next to a 150 yr old landmark. We do not and cannot make buildings in a similar fashion
to those built that long ago and should never try to do that. look at that ND monstrosity) While I am not in love
with this solution, (it doesn't even look like the renderings published with that new row of columns on the practice
field side) there is nothing about the architecture to suggest it is a bad building. modern architecture is far better,
more efficient and visually striking than almost anything 100 years old. The best 2 new football training facilities are
at Oregon and Northwestern, and are both modern, creative and exciting buildings on very traditional campuses.
Take a look at what they did to Huff though. Classic Georgian architecture (I'm not an architect, but I think that's right.) Why not match the style of the building? What they did looks stupid to me as a casual observer. I don't disagree that the NW facility is cool, in an extremely cool venue but when you park a low modern building next to the classic stadium and block the sight lines it's a shame, regardless of whether there was space or money or any way to do it differently. I wish I could have seen the stadium standing by itself rising up from the flat ground. Still seems like there's no one on campus with a vision about style, etc. They're all too focused on whether the Chief is good or bad and whether we should get a soldier or squirrel or otter and keeping the bias response team fully occupied. Leadership (or the lack thereof) has a broad reach.
A little late to be complaining about the location of the facility when it's nearly completed. At any rate, functionally it was easily the best and only place to put it for it to tie in with the existing indoor practice facility and the stadium itself which has it's own facilities still. At least they have made other improvements to the stadium which have enhanced it's usability and appearance, most notably Grange Grove on the west side. The same can't be said for many other places across the country. It will be even better when someday, somehow, they finally do the full South End Zone renovation/addition and get rid of the tinker toy stands. Hopefully it will be sometime in the next decade...
The columns support the roof overhang and cantilevered portion of the structure. disclaimer: am not an architect.
A little late to be complaining about the location of the facility when it's nearly completed. At any rate, functionally it was easily the best and only place to put it for it to tie in with the existing indoor practice facility and the stadium itself which has it's own facilities still. At least they have made other improvements to the stadium which have enhanced it's usability and appearance, most notably Grange Grove on the west side. The same can't be said for many other places across the country. It will be even better when someday, somehow, they finally do the full South End Zone renovation/addition and get rid of the tinker toy stands. Hopefully it will be sometime in the next decade...