Issue date: 7/16/07 Section: Opinion

Heldenfelds Hall

Walls that look like stale chocolate, inside and out. Severe lack of windows. The hallways, which feel like a prison, make students feel like they're in Hunstville instead of College Station. As plain as this building is, where did the red interior doors come from?

West Campus

When you walk onto a university campus and the stark architecture and absence of trees convinces you that you've arrived in communist Russia, you know it's bad. The Horticulture Building stands as a lone oasis in the desert across the railroad tracks.

New Indoor Athletic Practice Facilities

Texas A&M probably plans to double these buildings as hangers for blimps when ESPN televises the football games. What used to be a nice view of campus from the stands of Olsen Field is now obstructed by two enormous circus tents.

Reed Building

Tucked away in Kyle Field's armpit, the Reed Building is a maze of classrooms, gymnasiums and racquetball courts. The building layout is utterly confusing to anyone who is not a Kinesiology major, and most of the building's interior is in desperate need of a new coat of paint.

Harrington Education Center Classrooms

This windowless wonder is home to virtually every freshman core curriculum class, assuring that students will quickly come to appreciate mediocre campus buildings in comparison to the HECC. The only color in the entire building comes from the Spring Break ski trip posters and vending machines. Maybe the education majors could decorate the interior as a semester project.

Reed McDonald Building

The previous location of The Battalion's newsroom is actually quite mysterious. From bullet holes in what was then the editor's office, the steel-walled elevator and the amazing disappearing first floor, RDMC is a testament to the 1970s.

Balcony style residence halls

Thanks to dorms like McInnis, Schuhmacher and the FHK Complex, visitors assume that A&M contracts out to cheap motels. With the built-in furniture and outdoor hallways and stairways, move-in week is hell. While older dorms styles like Ramp and Corridor have some historical value to them, Balcony-style exacerbates the 1970s-era architecture that ruins a lot of the campus.

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