Brutalism and medical training

The building, one aspect of which is shown as today's blip, is an example of Brutalist architecture. These pipes would once have been secretly expelling stale air from the building. Such pipes have become a feature  of some buildings.

Medical students are treated more appropriately now than when I was a student. As third year students, we were subject to a dress code. For the young men; the young women were just ignored by our teachers. It was a simple enough code, as it required wearing a tie and jacket. But one of our class was ordered out of the lecture room because his 'jacket' was more accurately called a cardigan. I doubt that would happen now, and if, by some mischance, it did, his classmates would object.