Bard’s facilities are spread across the college’s 600 wooded acres almost haphazardly, adding to the feeling that this school might actually be a state park rather than a place of learning. As the college has expanded over the past 150 years, new buildings have popped up to accommodate the growing student population. Clearly, however, there’s been no formal vision at work in uniting the motley crew of buildings. What’s left is a hodgepodge of gothic and modern design. Bard’s performing arts center, masterminded by architect Frank Ghery, is ultra-austere. As a slick composition of distended metal and steel overhang, it’s nothing like the ivy-covered stonewall slant of Bard’s older academic buildings. Through a thin tree line on main campus, in the sleek, post-modern Reem-Keyden Center, students are visible in labs and seminars, through its floor-to-ceiling glass exterior. To its left, a deceptive red barn houses the financial aid offices. In total, the campus is an unwitting collection of new and old styles, some of whose sheer awkwardness can, at this point, only be seen as endearing.
Taking a tour of Bard campus, prospective students will be struck by just how different the school’s buildings are from one another. Facilities like Olin Language Center and Stevenson Gymnasium add a bit of concrete and glass to an otherwise organic campus. Each building serves its own unique purpose, no matter how out of place it may look. The Campus Center provides students with an Internet café, a game room, and a movie theater, while other buildings supply computers, classrooms, and art spaces accessible to all Bardians.
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General Campus Aesthetics
The overall look of Bard campus is absolutely classic hudson valley beauty. The school is made up of two old estates and the scenery is absolutely stunning.
Apr 04, 2012
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Campus facilities aren't exactly the best, but they aren't the worst either. Recently our campus has been doing renovations so the facilities have been getting better, especially for the Science and Music majors. In fact the best buildings are usually for the Music, Media, and Science majors.
Jan 28, 2012
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Small Everything
Since Bard is such a small school, our facilities are not very large. The gym has a pool and about three treadmills and some squash courts. The library (1) is ugly, but since we're subscribed to "ConnectNY" we can get any books delivered to us.
Campus itself is beautiful though, very green and huge.
Jan 24, 2012
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