I'm not exactly what blocks you're talking about on the Multicultural center but the last time I looked I'd guess you might be seeing the brackets for some vertical metal accent pieces for the facade, there's also some insulation that sorta matches that description. I don't think there was any yellow or tan in the renderings.
I took a closer look at the "sandstone" colored squares, and they may not be the finished exterior, maybe some sort of backing for whatever the finished facade is. I hope it is as there is a lot of wall space covered with those squares.
The Farm Lane Bridge is open for traffic while they finish the sidewalks and light poles. It looks great, maybe if you are interested in seeing it you might want to get over there before the graffiti "artists" decorate the walls.
Yeah, it has a path under the north embankment, the south pathway still crosses at street grade. I still always take the south pathway myself when passing through campus biking.
I've been waiting to grab more pics until the bridge is complete and the Multicultural Center's facade is more complete, but maybe I'll grab a few pics sooner, I'm by there at least once or twice a week typically.
I know there's nothing they could do to stop the graffiti long term, maybe it's part of the the 'tradition' of that part of campus by now, but I wonder if they kind of leaned into it with some sort of mural to start with, maybe even a graffiti style mural as a base for the inevitable. Maybe then the first tag wouldn't look so out of place.
A mural would be a good idea, in most case with murals around the city the taggers tend to leave the murals alone. In other areas of campus, they usually cover the graffiti over fairly quickly, they never covered anything under the old bridge. I know it is a part of culture for a while, but it still pisses me off when I see it, I'm like "that is not your wall" go paint your own walls. When I have taken the train, I often wonder how or why they could cover everything with graffiti for miles. Speaking of murals [not at MSU] there is a nice new one on the alley side of the Campus Manor Apartment building {Beggar's}. Most of the building was recently painted and looks great.
I'm huge fan of the murals around town, unfortunately I've noticed that multiple murals on the RiverTrail were defaced with garbage graffiti very recently, maybe within the past week, first time I've seen that in awhile and it was sad to see.
Yes, it seems like a new "artist" is inflicting his ego on us around town recently. The new sound barrier walls next to the Cherry Hill neighborhood has been tagged with big dumb tags, nothing artistic about it. I would like to see the fools who do this arrested, and the makers of spray paint take responsibility for the damage their products cause. Perhaps restricting sales to adults. I would guess that much of that paint is stolen. It must take hundreds of cans to paint a freak'in railroad car.
Meanwhile the Farm Lane bridge is looking very nice. Crews are installing the streetlights, they have a vintage look, similar to the lamp posts around the central campus. There are two tall lamp posts at each end and several shorter lamp post in between. The posts have a decorative brick base, the tall ones have a vintage post with the flat LED lamps, the shorter posts have lamps that are the same vintage design as the old pedestrian way lamps around the old campus. Looks like they will install the railings next, and it will be done. There is a new project beginning at the Museum. Also, a lot of utility work.
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I've been waiting to grab more pics until the bridge is complete and the Multicultural Center's facade is more complete, but maybe I'll grab a few pics sooner, I'm by there at least once or twice a week typically.