<p>Happy New Year</p>
<pre><code>The University of Chicago is the most like Hogwarts. Wasn’t Harry Potter filmed there?
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<p>Given that the Hogwarts architecture is supposed to give you a creepy, scary feeling, I’d suggest the Boston University law building, that’s not only scary-ugly, but seems to be giving everybody the finger:</p>
<p>[Preserving</a> modernism in Boston: making the case - This Land’s blog - Boston.com](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/community/blogs/this_land/2010/07/making_the_case_for_preserving.html]Preserving”>http://www.boston.com/community/blogs/this_land/2010/07/making_the_case_for_preserving.html)</p>
<p>It has to be Oxford!
Like an earlier poster mentioned, some of the US universities have amazing architecture that ‘mimics’ the original colleges of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham.</p>
<p>The buildings may look the same but you feel the difference when you stand in a room that was built in the 1430’s rather than one that used the same style but was built in the 1830’s.
Stone seats worn numb by thousands and thousands of students. Columns polished smooth by hands through the centuries.</p>
<p>My S is at Oxford and his room was built in the 17th century.(Its also very draughty, the toilets are 3 floors down and the showers are in another building!) The rooms opposite him on the quad are in cottages built in 1265. </p>
<p>Hogwarts represented ongoing wizard education for hundreds of years, thats why they chose the medieval buildings to base it on for the film as that is what JKR described in her books. Thats why it has to be Oxford. (Eton and some of the other very old public schools also have similar buildings)
The Hogwarts infirmary - filmed in the Divinity school of the Bodleian library.
The hall - filmed at Christchurch(and some of the staircase scenes)</p>
<p>It’s just history</p>
<p>Oxford university definitely.</p>
<p>pemphredo, I highly doubt the rooms opposite are in colleges built in 1265.</p>
<p>MY apologies ‘keepittoyourself’ I was out by 18yrs - I went back to the college site and wikipedia to check and they date from 1283 and are quoted on there and the college site as some of the oldest residential buildings in Oxford. The college is Worcester (formerly Gloucester college)
Why would you doubt that 13th century cottages still exist and are still used as students rooms?
We tend not to knock stuff down if there is no need.</p>
<p>Why do you doubt that keepittoyourself? It’s not that unusual in Oxford, or the UK for that matter - my cousins’ high school was founded in 948! :eek:</p>
<p>948!Wow.That’s older than old.The school must have founded itself.</p>
<p>Oxford, Cambridge, Avon Old Farms.</p>
<p>Yale, Rhodes, Sewanee.</p>
<p>South Dining Hall, University of Notre Dame</p>