[WilliamSt]

I think it's a cultural thing. A lot of people in europe think skyscrapers destroy the skylines of cities. They really dislike any changes though. For example, in Stockholm, there was a fire recently in a rather ugly building (where they educate architects!!). Rather than tearing it down and building something better looking than that sh*thole eye sore of a building they are just repairing it.

This is the building I'm talking about: https://www.google.se/maps/@59.3433863,18.0697072,3a,75y,309...

[jedberg]

Architecture schools always seem to be ugly for some reason. The one at Berkeley[0] is hideous. Legend has it that it was build to look "inside-out" so the students could have a better understanding of how buildings are built.

[0] https://ced.berkeley.edu/images/made/images/uploads/features...

[mabbo]

The Azrieli School of Architecture building at Carleton University in Ottawa is a bizarre building that a lot of Architect students have their courses in. The legend on campus is that the building was designed purposely to be filled with architectural flaws so that students would learn from them. I have no idea if it's true, but it certainly would explain a lot.

Perhaps your architect's school has a similar idea in mind. Because seriously, that is a dull looking building.

[maxerickson]

I can see how it could be good to make future architects suffer bad architecture along their way.