DON'T Call It a Library

November 20, 2009 - 12:40pm — birdie

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.

Comments

November 20, 2009 - 1:36pm — Anonymous

Throwback?

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

November 20, 2009 - 2:39pm — Anonymous

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.

November 20, 2009 - 3:24pm — Anonymous