#regenstein library

[uchicagomagazine]

“I hate libraries! Only over the last six or seven months have I come to love and not hate the Regenstein.” Five stars. See what people are saying about the Reg (avg rating 4.5 stars) on Yelp.

[ouropharynx]

[uchicagoadmissions]

Can never resist a latte from Ex Lib. Or 40.

[uchicagocollege]

bru·tal·ismˈbro͞odlˌizəm/

noun

a style of architecture or art characterized by a deliberate plainness, crudity, or violence of imagery. The term was first applied to functionalist buildings of the 1950s and 1960s that made much use of steel and concrete in starkly massive blocks.

University of Chicago, Regenstein Library

[wherefunsurvives]

Overseen in the Reg: the more morbid cousin of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and a very well-cared for tree.

[uchicagomagazine]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a cement mixer? The latter could be correct in this 1968 snapshot of builders at work on the University’s key construction project of the era: The Reg. Named for industrialist Joseph Regenstein, the Regenstein Library shook up the look of campus with its rough, brutalist style when it was finished in 1970—though architect Walter Netsch declared it to be “more gothic” than other University buildings.

[uchicagoadmissions]

Do you know where this photo was taken from? Hint: It has seven floors and millions of stories! 

[uchicagoadmissions]

#TBT: Architectural rendering of the Reg, dated 1965. 

via @uchicagoscrc