There are (few) clean, beautiful modern designs that do not sport classic elements. The second one though looks like it came from a bad acid trip. The forbidding blind-eyed structure in the background cohabits the space with the cheerful greenhouse on top of a romanesque revival arch. Angled elevated walkways criss-cross in the air suggesting that whoever put this strange ensemble together did not hapen to think of elevators. Is the pedestrian area under the arch actually sloped? Pushing a stroller under that arch got to be a lot of fun. Is there a reason for the siege earthworks on the left?
It is not textbook ugliness — certainly we can think of much worse, — as much as it is some kind of esthetic indigestion, like looking at someone eat cardboard with peanut butter.
What I was criticizing is the "blind-eyed structure" you refered to. The "cheerful greenhouse" is actually a pedestrian bridge that goes from the "structure" to a newer building that was built in the "Georgian" style of the rest of the campus.