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Why do music colleges have to be so ugly?

Why do music colleges have to be so ugly?

This is a proposed design for the new Royal Academy of Music in East London. It shows the same level of functionality as a used tube of toothpaste.

But why stop there? This is the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

This is the Paris Conservatoire.

And ugliest of all, Juilliard.

I guess you don’t go to music school to learn about beauty.

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