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Reply 40

ILIGAN

Master Polhem

Imperial is complete crap, it is in the middle of the city, it is dead expensive and it is ******* ugly at that.

Been to Tanaka and i thought it was awesome. It's Imperial's business school, btw.

Reply 41

hobnob

TheOneWho

I have not visited, lived in, or studied at every university in the UK so can't say which I think has the best. My experience is limited to only a few.

To be honest, a lecture room is a lecture room and no university has universal lecture theatres, some are big, some are small, some are uncomfortable, some are modern, etc, etc.

Not to mention that a lot of those points won't be equally relevant to all subjects. I mean, what use is it to me if my university has great biochemistry labs and a brand-new gym if I never use either because I'm a classicist who prefers just to go for a run every morning? If you lump so many different things together in a broad category like "facilities" it all becomes a bit meaningless.

Reply 42

Krush

ILIGAN

UCL, yes.

Imperial? Maybe.

But LSE and King's? I'm a bit lurker with that.

Been to both campuses but nothing was there that surprised me. I thought LSE was rather disappointing. Though I thought the LSE Library was kind of cool. :yep:

Yeah same here: didn't expect LSE to look like that, although their library looked really nice!

UCL's main quad and their hospital were really good too but their Student's Union is housed in one the ugliest buildings known to man, and their maths department is housed on top of the SU in the same bulding...

Reply 43

ILIGAN

Krush

lol really?

I found UCL really cool, though I haven't really explored the whole campus. Been to the Biochem dept cause my ex-gf was from there and I thought it was high-tech. I liked what I saw. I also thought there med school was fantastic.

LSE was quite a disappointment, however, except for its library. It was really small and it felt suffocating even for those who aren't claustrophobic. lol

The London Business School was aMaaaaaZiiiiiing!!!

Reply 44

Krush

ILIGAN

Na UCL's SU bulding isn't that bad, I love to exaggerate. Let's just say it's not the prettiest bulding out there, and having my department on top of it isn't particularly appealing. Here's a picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image :u:

CLU_Gordon_Street.jpg

Reply 45

River85

Krush

CLU_Gordon_Street.jpg

That is slightly exaggerated, yes.

I think DSU's student union is up there with the most ugly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image :biggrin:

unelm3.jpg

This thread is silly. How many of us have visited all (or most) of the universities in the country?

Reply 46

Krush

River85

That is slightly exaggerated, yes.

I think DSU's student union is up there with the most ugly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image :biggrin:

unelm3.jpg

This thread is silly. How many of us have visited all (or most) of the universities in the country?

Mmm...Somehow I don't find it far worse than UCL's. They're both pretty crap though! :biggrin:

Reply 47

Scipio_Africanus

Krush

CLU_Gordon_Street.jpg

What an ugly building, london unis are all terrible (especially inner london ones).

Reply 48

TheOneWho

River85

I think DSU's student union is up there with the most ugly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image :biggrin:

unelm3.jpg

Glasgow's QMU, or Swansea's will be up there too. Both are pretty awful.

Reply 49

Democracy

Scipio_Africanus

What an ugly building, london unis are all terrible (especially inner london ones).

Say what?

How is this terrible?

Or this:

Reply 50

xxxchrisxxx

Are you talking about the most scenic or simply well-equipped?

Reply 51

suicidal_dream

loughborough has a pretty ace campus - everything nicely together, not too squashed, padded out with treeeees and sports fields.

Reply 52

jonnythemoose

If we're talking about aesthetically pleasing to look at, then Royal Holloway looks like a fairytale palace from pictures I've seen... :love:

Reply 53

silent ninja

Master Polhem

Imperial is complete crap, it is in the middle of the city, it is dead expensive and it is ******* ugly at that.

Aren't you going to Imp?
I somewhat agree but it's not crap. It would appeal to someone who loves a big city and also has that grandeur about it. It's not a patch on some of the campuses out there but that's because it's not a campus!

Scipio_Africanus

What an ugly building, london unis are all terrible (especially inner london ones).

UCL looked great to me. Royal Holloway?

Reply 54

Pink Moon

I think Leeds is pretty perfect. The union, campus and city are all great.

Reply 55

Master Polhem

silent ninja

So I am a fatalist, sue me.

Reply 56

ILIGAN

River85

That is slightly exaggerated, yes.

I think DSU's student union is up there with the most ugly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image :biggrin:

unelm3.jpg

This thread is silly. How many of us have visited all (or most) of the universities in the country?

Yuck!!! That was pretty awful. Disgusting...

My undergrad school has a fantastic campus and school facilities:

http://www.terragalleria.com/california/california.stanford.html
http://www.terragalleria.com/california/picture.usca33432.html
http://www.terragalleria.com/california/picture.usca37395.html

Reply 57

River85

ILIGAN

Yuck!!! That was pretty awful. Disgusting...

That's the 1960s for you. Brutalist architecture (grey, angular, powerful) was the "in" thing. It worked better on the continent than here. Anyway, just to show that not all of Durhams' buildings are beautiful. The Hill colleges also have their critics.

But Dunelm House actually won a Civic Trust award after it was built. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the architecture historian, referred to it as, "Brutalist by tradition but not brutal to the landscape ... the elements, though bold, [are] sensitively composed."

I think he was talking crap.

The archiect also designed the bridge to the left of Dunelm House which goes over the river and offers a fantastic view of the cathedral and tranquil riverside and woods below. Just a shame you have to pass that concrete monster.

Reply 58

Pseudo Noob

Disregarding the 'campus' attachment, as very few Universities are actually 'campus' Universities in the UK; in terms of most aesthetically appealing/vibrant it has to be the University of Birmingham (which incidentally is a campus University), Royal Holloway, Oxbridge - especially Corpus Christi College, Ox and Clare College, Cam. However, I don't think there are many ugly ones :P Durham on the other hand has about 3 or 4 aesthetically appealing colleges; Univ, Hatfield etc. St Mary's University College Twickenham has to be up there too. It's totally subjective though, I mean some people may appreciate brutalism? Perhaps I am just ignorant :P

I'd go with Birmingham due to the fact that it's a beautiful campus, the facilities are excellent, it's green and it's a train ride from a big cosmopolitan and regenerated city :smile: