No more parking is allowed outside of newly-opened Alter Hall. Temple has made an already awful parking situation for students even worse.
Since the beginning of the Spring 2009 semester, parking was allowed on both 13th and Montgomery Streets outside of the new business school building, but “No Stopping” signs were installed Friday.
The new regulations keep from blocking the gorgeous new sign proclaiming Alter Hall’s existence with half a city block of aluminium capital letters.
Inga Saffron, the Inquirer’s architecture critic, had some harsh words to share about the new Tyler School of Art building at 12th and Norris streets. Agreeing with some Tyler students, she’s not happy.
Despite Tyler’s importance to the university, Temple dumped what should have been a statement building at the far end of the campus universe, plopping it down seemingly at random, so that its main entrance looks out onto the dumpsters for the Biology-Life Sciences Building.
Saffron goes on to say the “enormous, sprawling building, whose exterior resembles a run-of-the-mill high school, fails to forge a desperately needed sense of place,” as it lies among a hodgepodge of campus buildings.
She also takes a jab at the “morbidly obese” Alter Hall, “a mausoleum for the egos of the nation’s financial titans.”
Your thoughts? Do Temple’s newest buildings have a place on the crowded campus?
Photo courtesy of Temple.
