Ouch...UT Knoxville Among America's "Ugliest" campuses?

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

With a lack of green space and a road slicing the campus in half, the brick and concrete environs of the University of Tennessee could double as a skateboard park. The John C. Hodges Library is a notable eyesore. Not only was the original 1969 building unappealing, in 1987 more brick cascades were added, accentuating the squat proportions. Fortunately, any daytime dreariness is in stark contrast to night, when, according to one student on Unigo.com, “The campus is a wonderland, with all of the buildings lit up and the pedestrian walkway lined with gorgeous lamps.”



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It has been ugly in the past, but is changing every year. It will never be the most beautiful campus in the south. Don't care.
 
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It is ugly. But it doesn't take long to get out into some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country.
 
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I mean they aren't completely wrong...it isn't the prettiest. But it is getting better I think
 
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I believe this article comes out at least twice per year saying UTK is ugly. Nothing to see here. Clearly not negatively impacting recruiting.
 
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UtahVol said:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

With a lack of green space and a road slicing the campus in half, the brick and concrete environs of the University of Tennessee could double as a skateboard park. The John C. Hodges Library is a notable eyesore. Not only was the original 1969 building unappealing, in 1987 more brick cascades were added, accentuating the squat proportions. Fortunately, any daytime dreariness is in stark contrast to night, when, according to one student on Unigo.com, “The campus is a wonderland, with all of the buildings lit up and the pedestrian walkway lined with gorgeous lamps.”



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The 70s era buildings are hideous.

Hess is hideous.

Humanities is hideous.

The library is hideous.

UT really doesn't do it's "wtf are trees" campus any favors with those buildings.

And this new $10,000,000 building?

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Also hideous, in my opinion. Something just built within the last year somehow found a way to look like it was built in the 70s. That's probably why the band was so mad.

And TBA is kinda ugly from the outside.
 
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i thought it was purty - & my freshman year roommate from Philadelphia picked it because he thought it was purty too

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Majorvol23 said:
i thought it was purty - & my freshman year roommate from Philadelphia picked it because he thought it was purty too

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The Hill is beautiful. Ayers is beautiful.

It's the rest of the campus that is stuck in the 70s that is not beautiful.

And TBA looks like a WW2 bunker.

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Don't get me wrong, I love UT but having been to multiple campuses... UTK isn't pretty. It's prettier than it used to be but UT needs to just model every building like Ayers and plant some trees.

Humanities has to be the ugliest building complex on any campus I've ever seen.
 
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It would help if there weren't a million traffic cones surrounding the campus.

But that's just Knoxville in general though.
 
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Harvey Mudd (#2) really is an ugly campus.

Fantastic engineering school, though.
 
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