Sorry but the nls campus is so haphazard,. The library, cafe, the training centre is probably the good part. Classrooms look gorg now since they re-designed it. Other wise it's a mess .
Lame list. NLIU has a pretty big spacious green campus being in Bhopal. And while NLUD is a concrete jungle, the symmetry, well-maintained gardens and organised construction is worth appreciating given its location in Dwarka (which is quite uninspiring). I doubt you've really visited too many NLUs. NLS campus is also thanks to all the greenery, I've heard the same of NALSAR. But both are more or less on the outskirts of their cities. So many folks criticise NUJS' campus but that's to be expected given the location, I guess.
GNLU is ugly and jarring brutalist architecture which did not even have any green cover until some recent improvement. During the sweltering Gujarat summers, students found it a pain to even walk to the main gate. Have there been legit study visits? Or is this as real as the fortnightly tales of so called fights and controversies involving the infamous batch which are posted here
If you really want to look at beauty of RMLNLU don't look at Google pics. Look at insta profiles of students. It is the prettiest campus. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL.
NLSIU: The red-brick architecture looks nice but dated. Not bad as a whole and among the better designs.
NALSAR: A safe, sober design with safe, sober colours. Also looks more modern than NLSIU.
NLUD: Should have been better designed. A concrete jungle, as someone said.
NUJS: Ridiculous. The quad and pillar take up so much space in a small campus. Should have just been a ten-storeyed boxy building, given the space constraints.
GNLU: Fugly. Just grey concrete. It actually looks like those big-ass Soviet and Nazi buildings. NLIU and NLUJ: Keep confusing the two, lolz. One looks like a typical sarkari building and one looks like a Lego contraption built by a 4-year old who had too much sugar for breakfast.
CNLU: Looks like a cheap Bhojpuri film set replica of a royal palace. Can imagine Ravi Kishen dancing Naatu Naatu in front of it.
The fact is that only universities by the built in British India are beautiful. Those built in post-colonial India are ugly as fuck. Either Nehruvian brutalist architecture or postmodernist architecture. We need to return to classic, conservative architecture. Look at these universities built in British India and compare with the garbage we have built since:
- IISC Bangalore
- St Xavier's College Mumbai
- Calcutta University
- Bombay University
- King George’s Medical University, Lucknow
- BHU
- IIT Rookie (then known as REC Roorkee).
- Ferguson College Pune
- IIT Kharagpur main building (then known as Hijli prison camp)
The Jindal campus is probably the only law campus designed by an A-list architect (Stephane Paumier, who is French). Here are some of his other buildings: https://www.spadesign.co.in/
I don't think the steel bird's next design of the Jindal campus is very attractive, but he was probably asked to do it, since Jindal Steel must have supplied it for free.
Appalling to see the name of HNLU so low in the lists! Whoever has known the campus minutely more than the pictures on Google, would definitely place it among the top 3.
Most beautiful:
1. NALSAR
2. NLSIU
3. GNLU
Ugliest:
1. CNLU Patna
2. NLIU
3. NLUD
Academic Block is Rani PINK (not a subtle pink, it is a hurting your eyes kind of pink) (pink panther pro max)
Hostels are Sea Green and Sky Blue in colour (Marine life because it is Odisha, finding memo)
Library is a white building with rainbow pillars and blue stripes (Snoopy with rainbow stripes)
Administrative block is orange-yellow (Garfield)
Pura campus colourful hai :)
1. GNLU, Gandhinagar
2. HPNLU, Shimla
3. RGNUL, Patila
4. NUALS, Kochi
5. NLUJAA, Guwahati
6. MNLU, Nagpur
7. NLS, Bangalore
8. HNLU, Raipur
9. RMLNLU, Lucknow
10. NLU, Delhi
This list is formed on the basis of staring at campus pics of all NLUs for several minutes :)
No point mentioning the ugliest since some of them doesn't even have a campus to begin with.
Gnlu
The worst campus has lot of competition
Patna
Ranchi
Odisha
Shimla
Mumbai
Sonipat
Kolkata
Best NLU campuses
Hyderabad
Patiala
Lucknow
Bangalore
Delhi
GNLU
NALSAR: A safe, sober design with safe, sober colours. Also looks more modern than NLSIU.
NLUD: Should have been better designed. A concrete jungle, as someone said.
NUJS: Ridiculous. The quad and pillar take up so much space in a small campus. Should have just been a ten-storeyed boxy building, given the space constraints.
GNLU: Fugly. Just grey concrete. It actually looks like those big-ass Soviet and Nazi buildings.
NLIU and NLUJ: Keep confusing the two, lolz. One looks like a typical sarkari building and one looks like a Lego contraption built by a 4-year old who had too much sugar for breakfast.
CNLU: Looks like a cheap Bhojpuri film set replica of a royal palace. Can imagine Ravi Kishen dancing Naatu Naatu in front of it.
- IISC Bangalore
- St Xavier's College Mumbai
- Calcutta University
- Bombay University
- King George’s Medical University, Lucknow
- BHU
- IIT Rookie (then known as REC Roorkee).
- Ferguson College Pune
- IIT Kharagpur main building (then known as Hijli prison camp)
etc etc
I don't think the steel bird's next design of the Jindal campus is very attractive, but he was probably asked to do it, since Jindal Steel must have supplied it for free.
NLU J = beautiful
NLSIU = 7/10 = weird geometrical shapes
NLUD =7/10 = congested, given the space constraint in delhi, good try
CNLU =7/10 = weird choice of colours, will never understand those arabic domes on top of every building
NLUO = 8/10 = love, campus radiates abundance and freedom, but 5 or 6/10, could have done much better
DSNLU = beautiful overall structure, some uncle from 60s chose the building colours?
NLU KOCHI = beautiful, just like any other place in kerala, but please know there exist colours other than brick red?
NLU SHIMLA = 7/10 = monotonous, looks like someone built them with legos, but cute and simple
TN NLU = broken buildings, area wise TINY, more or less organised but UGLY
GNLU = gothic colours and ISRO + roman colosseum vibes
aesthetic wise
DSNLU > GNLU > HP NLU > KOCHI NLU and NLU O > RML NLU