<p>I wonder how this will fit in with the current architecture? It looks to be west of the Reg, just in front of the Moore sculpture and Barbie's Dream House. It's kind of a hodgepodge there now, perhaps this will pull it together somehow.</p>
<p>Chicago</a> Maroon | $25 million donation to fund new library</p>
<p>I like that attachment. The design is pretty badass and offers a strong contrast with the cubic Regenstein. Also the integration of an ASRS is awesome.</p>
<p>Interesting yes, but my D, who lives in Barbie's Dream House facing the Reg, is concerned about the construction noise next year!</p>
<p>They will be digging one big hole in the ground so there should be a little dust as well...</p>
<p>Nice that they waited to announce it until a week after the housing commitment for next year was due.</p>
<p>has anyone noticed that the separators between the desks on the 2nd or 3rd floor of the reg look like swastikas?</p>
<p>kinda funny</p>
<p>My parents have actually met Joe Mansueto at Morningstar, and he's a guy who runs a Fortune 500 company wearing jeans and a backpack to work.</p>
<p>This library looks ridiculous. I don't know what they were thinking. I think the Tribune's critic sums it up especially well:</p>
<p>"But the design could look bizarrely out of place, and not just because of its proximity to the U. of C.’s Cobb Gate, a passageway festooned with neo-Gothic grotesques.</p>
<p>The real trouble is the way the library departs from the university’s characteristic planning, which consists of walled-in courtyards: places of extraordinary dignity and repose. Regenstein broke that pattern in 1970 with its limestone-faced Brutalism. Now the library’s Jetson futurism appears poised to repeat the same mistake.</p>
<p>Why must every building strive to be an icon? Even if the new library turns out to be a wonderful place to read, you have to wonder: Will this design become a part of a greater whole or just another self-indulgent object?"</p>
<p>-Blair Kamin</p>
<p>I will reserve judgment until I see the finished product, but a building that paid tribute to Harper library would have been nice.</p>