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Glasgow University Library is the modern building in the shot and the round building is the Glasgow University Library Reading Room. This image was taken from the grounds of the Main University Building on University Avenue.
The McMillan Reading Room, also known as the 'Round Reading Room,' was designed by T. Harold Hughes and David Stark Reid Waugh between 1936 and 1939, and renamed in memory of University benefactors, Robert and Edith McMillan. This A-listed building was awarded a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) bronze medal in 1950 for the best building erected in Scotland during the period 1936-1949.
It was built on the site of New Hillhead House dating from c1850. The house was gifted to the University in 1917 by the family of Walter MacLellan of Blairvaddick (1815-89) in his memory. A bust of Walter MacLellan currently sits inside the Reading Room. The Psychology, Russian and Celtic departments occupied the villa in the 1930s.
Since the reading room situated in the south-east quadrangle of the Gilbert Scott Building was no longer able to accommodate the number of students or sustain the required longer opening hours, Principal Hetherington requested urgent funds for a new reading room. The University Grants Committee gave a grant of £15,000 and the Bellahouston Trustees gave a further £7,500 towards the estimated construction cost of £20,000.
Hughes presented a number of alternative designs in January 1938 which involved a U-plan courtyard arrangement of potential future buildings around the south, west and north sides of the reading room, leaving the east side open towards Thomas Lennox Watson's Wellington Church of 1883-1884. The plan was also meant to incorporate a square clock tower. In the end only the Reading Room was built. The monumental circular domed building is meant to be a modern interpretation of the Pantheon in Rome.
The new Reading Room was built to meet the primary needs of students in first and second year courses in all Faculties and have the longest opening hours of any unit in the library system at the University. It was used as ancillary accommodation for the library in the Gilbert Scott Building until the construction of the current Library in the late 1960s.
Continuing to change with the times and demands, the Reading Room service was transferred to the Main Library and the building now houses a student help-desk and IT Education Unit.
Designed by Eggleston, MacDonald and Secomb, the Birch Building is a heritage-listed building completed in 1968. It was named after Arthur Birch, one of the greatest organic chemists of the twentieth century. Birch was the Dean of the ANU Research School of Chemistry (RSC) from 1967 to 1970 and 1973 to 1976 and was the President of the Australian Academy of Science from 1982 to 1986.
The Birch Building previously housed RSC and is now home to the College of Engineering and Computer Science where the School of Cybernetics is located.
West Midlands Railways 196108 approaches University station working 1V27, 12:50 Birmingham New Street - Hereford on a grey winter Saturday afternoon, 4th January 2025.
I wonder if the administrative block of Manipal University at Jaipur is a model to study for their School of Architecture and Design students.
the University of CATANIA is the bigest and oldest university of SICILY -
established in 1434, destroyed and reconstructed after the earthquake of 1693 -
here the inner courtyard of the main building - ( best viewed on black ) -
l'université de Catane est la plus grande et la plus ancienne université de
Sicile et de l'Italie du sud - fondée en 1434 elle a été détruite par un tremblement de terre et
reconstruite en 1693 - ici la cour intérieure du bâtiment principal.
I Was Driving Through Newcastle With My Good Friend Kev Shaw When He Spotted This Building. We Liked The Look Of The Architecture So decided To Take A Shot. I Think It Looks Better In Mono.
It was a long exposure shot during rain at my University.
Gear : Nikon D90 | Nikkor 18-105mm VR
Exif : 1.6sec | f/11 | 500
Place & Date : North South University, Dhaka. | 28 Sep, 2010.
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This tower at the University of California Berkeley is officially called Sather Tower. However, its resemblance to the Campanile in venice has earned it a nickname.
This was taken during a visit for my son who considered attending Berkeley for graduate school. He decided to stay in Chicago..
Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences.
Edinburgh [etc.] :Published for the proprietor [etc.],1835-1840.
HBM This bench is near the house that was occupied by the President of what is now Princeton University. The city of Princeton was called “northernmost outpost of Southern culture” . Before the Civil war there were large numbers of students from the deep south in the university.
The President's House, also known as the John Maclean House, or simply the Maclean House, in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, was built to serve as the home of the President of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University. It was completed in 1756, the same year as Nassau Hall. John Witherspoon lived here from 1768 through 1779, during which time he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. George Washington occupied Maclean House in January 1777, during the Battle of Princeton and in 1783 while Congress met in Nassau Hall.
It now serves as the home of the Alumni Association of Princeton University and houses 35 staff, hosts many alumni functions and showcases Princeton memorabilia and a library of Princetoniana.
At least five Princeton presidents who occupied the President's House between 1756 and 1822 owned enslaved people who lived and worked in the house. These presidents included Aaron Burr Sr., Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Finley, Samuel Stanhope Smith, and Ashbel Green. Enslaved people lived in the slave quarters on the second floor of the detached "Kitchen House" to the rear of the main building.
After his death in 1766, Samuel Finley's personal property was auctioned off at the President's House. Advertisements for the estate sale described "two negro women, a negro man, and three Negro children" to be sold alongside livestock, furniture, and books.
In 2017, the Princeton University Art Museum, in collaboration with the Princeton & Slavery Project, commissioned American artist Titus Kaphar to create a public art piece in front of the President's House. His sculpture Impressions of Liberty, unveiled in November 2017, depicts the face of Samuel Finley in relief, along with the figures of enslaved people sold at the house after his death.
The President's House is the first stop on the Stories of African American Life at Princeton walking tour. The house also appears on the Princeton University Art Museum's mobile tour of Art and Slavery at Princeton. [Wikipedia]
This is the main staff dining house at Melbourne University and it is situated at the end of Professor's walk. We had a lovely conference lunch here.
Just a self guided tour, lots of building work going on spoiling a lot of potential shots but picked up some interesting frames I think. All on the M9/28mm Summicron Asp and converted in Capture One.
Al llegar a la Universidad de Glasgow me di cuenta de mi error al dejar mi reflex en el hotel, ya que el lugar es sencillamente de película.
Me encontré esta escena de gran rando dinámico en un arco de uno de los patios, así que me tomé como un reto el captarla lo más fielmente posible con mi "vieja" compacta (sin trípode, una sola toma)
A Beyazit-dzsámi mögött, húzódik meg az Isztambuli Egyetem központi épülettömbje. A kerítéssel bekerített terület szép architektúrájú kapuzata eredetileg az oszmán hadügyminisztérium tekintélyét volt hivatva hangsúlyozni, ugyanis az udvar végében húzódó, 1870-ben épült neoklasszikus palotában eredetileg hadügyminisztérium működött.
Az egyetemet 1845-ben alapították, az I Abdülmecid által kihirdetett reformok idején. Az egyetemi kert jobb oldalán massziv kőtorony emelkedik, a Beyazit-Kulesi. Az 1849-ben épült kőtorony előtt már két fából készült elődje tűz martaléka lett, jóllehet hivatásuk is éppen ezzel függött össze: tűzfigyelö tornyok voltak.