The Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Law has been ranked No. 17 in the world.

For top 50 law school buildings. It was the only Asian entry.

Only seven years old, SMU has beaten the likes of Yale (no. 48), Stanford (no. 45) and Harvard (no. 30) for having arbitrarily better architecture.

Let's pause for a moment and marvel at how Yale Law School, Sterling Law building looks like:

Why is this ranked number 48? Beats me.

Best Choice Schools, an online resource in the United States which aims to help students find the best universities in the world, compiled the rankings.

The best law building went to the law school of Durham University in England, followed by the University of Northumbria at Newcastle in England and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in California in the US.

This is what Best Choice wrote about SMU:

"Established in 2007, the Singapore Management University School of Law is the tiny country’s second law school. The University’s Li Ka Shing Library contains nearly 200,000 periodicals both print and electronic, and the building itself is a modern masterpiece of glass and greenery. Tiered levels of windows are covered with lush plantings, and the interior space offers students express workstations, natural light, and skylights. Set to open in 2017, the University’s new building project, the Kwa Geok Choo Library will provide a stunning accompaniment to a campus that already stands as a bastion of modern architecture."

Elvis Costello once said: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture -- it's really a stupid thing to want to do."

Therefore, ranking architecture is like...

Yes, it is pointless.

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