After the ribbon cutting of the Idea Center, the building is officially completed. Although the building was completed when the school year began, the past few months have been spent adding final touches. 

Between the frosting of windows and new graphics, aesthetic touches have been recently added to bring character to the building. But are these graphics and decorations too much?

When you first walk into the building, you see graphics placed along the frosted windows to the robotics lab, journalism room, and broadcast studio. Compared to the original bare windows, this addition makes the hallway appear particularly busy and could be perceived as ‘tacky’.                            overall quality of the building.  The Ideas Institute is an expensive, modern building and these graphics can take away from the overall quality of the building. 

Along with the graphics downstairs, there are new graphics upstairs. In the open study space, there is a large mural that says “Greetings from Holy Trinity”. It is designed in a way that looks like a postcard with fake brick surrounding the graphic. Before the addition to the graphics, it was just plain and painted grey. The graphics bring more life to the space and make it more customized to the Holy Trinity. On the wall across from the postcard mural there is another graphic. It is black and is designed to appear like a chalk board. On the top left corner of the wall, it says “The Hub”. Additions like these graphics to the walls upstairs add character to the space, but the overwhelming amount condensed into specific areas can take away from the design of the building. 

Overall, the new additions to the building take away from the building itself. Graphics and decor are needed to bring life to a space, but too much of it can distract the eye and make the space overwhelming. Because the Ideas Institute is such a nice building, these finishing touches can make the quality of the building seem lower and not to its true standard.