Cal88;841909858 said:
One small quibble about the architecture of the Simpson Center: the beige sandstone exterior seems out of place, it's too bad they couldn't do it in white sierra granite, keeping with the Howard-era campus style. If this option were prohibitive, they could have gone with wood shingle (another campus mainstay), or some kind of faux granite exterior treatment like the one many buildings on campus have been covered with.
Wood shingles would have been entirely out of place. Think about it. A building at a lower elevation covered in wood shingle when the building rising above it is in concrete? I find the visual to be confusing, quite frankly.
Stone (faux or real) or concrete (like the stadium itself), were the only realistic choices. I, too, would have preferred white sierra granite. But I can also imagine that this would have been cost prohibitive, given the surface area to be covered.
