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"The new house, called The Point, is 8,000 square feet, with 5,000 of those square feet for public uses including large receptions and student events. The 3,000-square-foot second floor will serve as the living quarters for the chancellor’s family."

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 4:03 PM. Reason : http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/2011/12/construction-complete-on-ncsu.html]

12/20/2011 4:03:12 PM

Party at The Pit.

12/20/2011 4:05:15 PM

we have a whole school of design and architecture that they could have used for free on the design of this place, but im sure they payed someone a lot of money for something that looks like shit

12/20/2011 4:06:42 PM

id say that is pretty consistent with our university's decor

12/20/2011 4:07:24 PM

right through the woods of my backyard

12/20/2011 4:10:12 PM

Needs to be a giant wolf statue in the middle there.

This campus needs more giant wolf statues.

12/20/2011 4:10:20 PM

pretty ugly

12/20/2011 4:10:37 PM

please tell me that picture is stretched vertically.

12/20/2011 4:10:48 PM

^^
Well, which is it?

12/20/2011 4:10:57 PM

everyone gets laid

12/20/2011 4:12:04 PM

inside looks nice, but man they like to make Centennial look like a bunch of factories

12/20/2011 4:12:15 PM

Kind of looks like an asylum, one of the stereotypical creepy ones.

12/20/2011 4:13:25 PM

lol@hey now

12/20/2011 4:14:07 PM

truly, truly looks like shit

12/20/2011 4:16:21 PM

I drove by it a couple times on the way to the golf course. Never realized it was a house. I thought it was just a bunch of offices.

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"The new house is appropriately made out of red brick, similar to many other buildings on campus."

This is so lame to me. Just because most of our buildings on campus look like shit, doesnt mean we should continue that tradition.

I'd still live there though.

12/20/2011 4:16:58 PM

12/20/2011 4:17:03 PM

Looks like a church more than a residence. Inside is nice, but the outside is awful.

Honestly whoever chose this design should be fired.




[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 4:19 PM. Reason : ju]

12/20/2011 4:18:47 PM

well at least they used bricks

12/20/2011 4:21:17 PM

Chancellor's old crib:

12/20/2011 4:21:31 PM

So, main story is "for public use" and the second floor is the residence. I want to see pictures of the residence side of things.

^I like that more.

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 4:22 PM. Reason : ]

12/20/2011 4:21:59 PM

Is it just me, or does the exterior look like a church.

12/20/2011 4:22:40 PM

yeh, the old one looks much better

12/20/2011 4:23:06 PM

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"id say that is pretty consistent with our university's decor the TKE bunker"

12/20/2011 4:38:15 PM

I'd live there.

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM. Reason : l]

12/20/2011 5:10:56 PM

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"yeh, the old one looks much better like every other mediocre old house"

But yea, man is the new house not worth the bill.

12/20/2011 5:13:43 PM

NCSU....


WE FUCKING LOVE BRICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111

12/20/2011 5:16:34 PM

so is someone's job to light lanterns in the towers if they see the british coming?

12/20/2011 5:26:29 PM

they should have built it on main campus so the archers could protect the Free Expression Tunnel

12/20/2011 5:28:49 PM

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"id say that is pretty consistent with our university's decor the TKE bunker"

you mean the Sigma Kappa bunker

it's their problem now

12/20/2011 5:30:02 PM

oh my gaaaaaaaaaaawd, is that a CHRISTMAS tree on the second floor?






get a rope

12/20/2011 5:30:25 PM

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"The new house, called The Point"

i like the sound of this

12/20/2011 5:40:44 PM

new house needs more bricks.

old house, what kind of architecture is that called?

12/20/2011 5:46:24 PM

My first thought was YAY THE POINT!!!!

12/20/2011 5:52:01 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_architecture Is the closest you can get to a proper name for the original.

As for this new post-modernist pseudo-historical monstrosity...

Well, I'll just leave that alone.

12/20/2011 6:25:14 PM

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"they should have built it on main campus so the archers could protect the Free Expression Tunnel "

lol I too thought the chimneys looked like some sort of turrets.

12/20/2011 6:26:31 PM

^^ that or american colonial depending on who you talk to. I'm not a fan of either, though I dislike the style of this new house even more.

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 6:35 PM. Reason : ]

12/20/2011 6:34:59 PM

Watch in 50 years this house will be lauded as the best example of whatever the hell style you would call that thing.

12/20/2011 7:15:19 PM

They said on the news today that the dean of the school of design designed the house. I wonder who engineered it

12/20/2011 7:24:06 PM

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"dean of the school of design designed the house"

more evidence for the those that cant do, teach theory

12/20/2011 7:35:40 PM

to me it reminds me of that house in north ridge that no one ever lived in to me

12/20/2011 7:36:10 PM

ITT armchair aestheticians.

12/20/2011 7:42:28 PM

d

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 7:46 PM. Reason : ]

12/20/2011 7:45:54 PM

i completely agree, baonest

12/20/2011 7:51:51 PM

I like it

12/20/2011 7:58:42 PM

I can't believe we spent 3.5 million to build that ugly shitbox. Even one of the most expensive private custom homebuilders could have built that for $1-1.5 mil.

12/20/2011 7:58:57 PM

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"ITT armchair aestheticians."

12/20/2011 8:06:02 PM

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"we have a whole school of design and architecture that they could have used for free on the design of this place, but im sure they payed someone a lot of money for something that looks like shit"

The original architect of the Chancellor's Residence was DixonWeinstein (now WeinsteinFriedlein) out of Chapel Hill. Early in the design process, some preliminary drawings were shown to the chancellor (Oblinger), an ex-chancellor or two, and some trustees. No one liked the design. They all thought it was too modern. From what I understand Oblinger said " I don't care what it looks like as long as it is Georgian." This is when the Dean of the School of Design became involved. Soon he became the "design" architect and DixonWeinstein became more of an architect of record.

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"They said on the news today that the dean of the school of design designed the house. I wonder who engineered it"

The landscape architecture firm I worked for (Reynolds & Jewell) was a part the original design team. I was able to see the project transform from conservatively modern house to an italian villa to what ever the fuck this monstrosity is. Every step along the way reducing the scope of the design and the budget to the point were the entire design team was fired (architects, landscape architects, civils, etc.) before the construction drawings were complete to save money. The house became a design build of sorts for John Rufty Homes (contractors not designers) and the site design was completed by the campus landscape architect and a landscape architecture student. As someone fairly in the know on this project, it's pretty embarrassing if you ask me.

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"more evidence for the those that cant do, teach theory"

From what I know, this was built entirely with private funds (which is why the project became known as the point, it needed to need to be a private development to be built with private funds). I think those providing said funds didn't give much leeway with the design. I think the dean did the most with what he had. Still pretty sad though. Like I said, the design team was fired as a cost saving measure. Someone, somewhere though that is was a good idea to begin cost cutting and value engineering instead of trying to work towards a well thought out design that could be implemented in phases. To me, it's a joke to me.

** Not bitter because the firm I worked for was fired.

12/20/2011 10:02:29 PM

OH well I want this brick color that looks like the ugly stuff they used in old factories BUUUUUUUUT I want all the housing details to be super modern with right angles and that cool gunmetal color on all the accents BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT I want it to look like a Presbyterian Church as well (complete with a parking lot big enough for 20 vehicles).

DO IT.

[Edited on December 20, 2011 at 10:33 PM. Reason : Perhaps I meant to say methodist church. What I'm getting at is that it's an ugly shitbox.]

12/20/2011 10:32:29 PM

From my point of view (as someone who goes in the house frequently)

It is pretty fantastic on the inside, although not at all practical. Personally I think the aesthetics got too much of a focus over practicality (and the aesthetics could use an upgrade which tells you where practicality lies on the totem pole) Sharp geometric angles are emphasized prominently throughout the house but when you start making the driveway geometric and impossible for people to maneuver... seriously?

There is a lot of criticism about the house, but the bottom line is there were so many opinions and hands being thrown into the pot that I imagine it was an impossible task to please everyone.

^ Also it could have used that extra design team not only on the outside, but the decorator went a little crazy haha

12/21/2011 12:48:07 AM

the fact that the house is made of brick is not what makes it ugly. just for the record; it looks like some people can't separate the two.

12/21/2011 12:51:02 AM