Beauty vs brutalism

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Dome of the central rotunda lined with statues of the Muses in the Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College. The architect, Stanford White (1853-1906), was inspired by the Roman Pantheon.

Beauty at the Bronx Community College
The library of Bronx Community College, designed by architect Stanford White, shown in 1904 when the campus was part of New York University; the Hall of Fame for Great Americans arcade is visible to the left and right of the library
Brutalism at the Bronx Community College

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