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adele87 in k_state

since sigma7 suggested it

Sep 11, 2006 13:44

Anyone here have a favorite or least favorite building on campus?

I know someone who hates Cardwell, but I honestly can't say since I've only had classes in McCain, Nichols, and Eisenhower so I don't have much to go on.

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se_ga_hikui September 11 2006, 19:10:14 UTC

The doors at Cardwell are built from lies. (They look like push doors but are actually pull!)

I like Willard Hall, personally. It's just got this antique feel to it that I think is pretty sweet.

sigma7 September 11 2006, 19:56:36 UTC

The doors at Cardwell always get me. Always. Even after decades, they still throw me.

Willard is much more tolerable now that you don't have to wait in line on the second floor up there to enroll. Oh, those were the days. About like waiting in line in front of Ahearn....

My favorite is still Nichols (just a pretty building all the way around), my least favorite is probably Dickens (from having to trudge up the stairs to a cartography lab during the summer-like spring) and a dishonorable mention to Hale for having windows where there should be doors (just trying to navigate inside is insanely difficult sometimes; why should I have to go up and down stairs just to bypass this wall?).

adele87 September 11 2006, 20:29:58 UTC

It's not that bad if you go up the ramp instead of trying to enter near the same street that Willard is on.

donkeyjon September 12 2006, 15:08:20 UTC

I thought I was the only person on here who still remembered the lines in front of Ahearn to pay. :)

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_nani_pilikia_ September 12 2006, 00:53:30 UTC

least favorites--kedzie, its just ugly and weird shaped and annoying. it sucks that i actually have to go in there all the time since its the mass comm building and waters...i dunno i just hate that building

favorite--nichols...its just awesome looking...also whichever isthe architecture building, i went in there one time and its pretty awesome looking

i like hale but then that fucking window annoys the hell out of me, whoever came up with that concept wasn't very smart

donkeyjon September 12 2006, 15:07:38 UTC

I work in Dickens now, and the building isn't good. :) Lots of stairs and unreasonable temperature level (always hot).

Seaton was always a weird 4th-dimensional space mapped onto this planet. I swear there are still people in there trying to find a way out from the late 60s.

Also, there is a lecture hall in Leisure that will make you grind your teeth. At first, it looks like a great room, with the old auditorium-style seating and chalkboard. But then the lecturer starts talking and you realize that the room is LOUD. Everything creaks, the lecturer's voice echoes off the walls (or disappears completely, depending on where he or she is standing), and the seating is uncomfortable for long periods of time.

ksushyguy September 15 2006, 01:58:04 UTC

My favorite building would be the Beach. The second floor lobby and Hempler Gallery are really interesting with all the angles and unfinished concrete juxtaposed against the finished white walls and polished floors. The lobby balcony also gives a really good view of the Chihuly chandelier. The arch under the cafe is also an interesting portion of that building.

My least favorite building on campus is McCain. It is a really large shoe box. The architects of that building had the opportunity to create a very beautiful and interesting space, and instead we ended up with a bland box. In the theater the acoustics are not that great and the stage seems really really small.