Glenn Currie, working for the Jackson firm of Foil Wyatt, designed this long, low, angular building sheathed in glass and metal to house the MSU Alumni Association. Many find the design sleek and exciting while others see it as jarringly unsympathetic to the buildings around it. Principal elements include a prowlike cantilever around which Barr Avenue winds and a dome-less rotunda with an adjacent attenuated pyramid, the pair reminiscent of the sphere and tower that symbolized the “World of Tomorrow” World’s Fair of 1939 in New York City. Landscape designers continued the theme of unexpectedness by planting a screen of non-native palm trees. The building has its greatest successes on the interior, where flowing volumes evidence a modernist’s skill in shaping space for human use and establishing visual connectedness between these spaces and the landscapes around them.