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The One-Minute Architecture Critic: UNLV's New Student Union |
With the exception of the Flora Dungan Humanities Building next door, which might be beyond context, this new structure bows tastefully to other campus buildings. The back-leaning curve of the glass-curtained centerpiece echoes Lied Library's arc-roofed atrium, and the projecting volumes to the left recall the cantilevered box sticking out of the Rod Lee Bigelow Health Sciences Building. Better yet, the silvery panels of the facade add a high-tech touch to Tate Snyder Kimsey's design, and the salmon-toned stone says "school colors" in a restrained way. But the building's name is proclaimed on a bright-red band of cheery graphics around the north end. All that says is "elementary school." Chuck Twardy