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My reason for visiting Ohio was to present at the Spring Conference in Athens, OH. I was picking up a couple presentations for another company employee that had last minute conflicts that couldn't be rescheduled. Rather than stay in Athens, I decided to stay in Columbus and drive there and back for the day (about 1 hour, 30 minutes each way). This was an easy drive with my new iTrip Auto.
I presented my own topics of "Developing Flash Lite 2 Applications" and "Introduction to Flex 2". A big thanks to the conference organizers that had the flexibility to allow this to happen. Also fantastic was the audiences and their questions and involvement. If you've in the Ohio area next year and are a web developer, I highly recommend attending.
For the record, it actually was spring break and I found the quietness of the campus downright erie.
Heritage listed, would you believe it? The university is forbidden to make it more aesthetically pleasing.
Welcome Week's "Grillin’ with the Greeks" brought new students together for a chance to learn what Greek Life is all about. Photo by Mark F. Conrad 8/29/18
The restoration of the Yale University Art Gallery reawakens one of America’s great architectural beauties from a slumber that has lasted too long. Like the return of a long-lost friend, however, it may resurrect a few old wounds.
Overseen by Polshek Partnership Architects, best known for producing sleek contemporary designs, the restoration puts Louis I. Kahn back on the pedestal he so richly deserves. All the elements of his genius are here: the bold geometric forms, the crisp lines, the sensitive use of light, the tactile love of materials. The first of his great masterpieces, the building foreshadows the atavistic landmarks of his late career.
Years of callous alterations have now been reversed, restoring those elements in all their glory. The west facade has been rebuilt so that its glass and steel frame regains its original lightness; a sunken exterior court that was senselessly roofed over to make room for more gallery space has been restored, allowing light to spill down once more into the lower galleries.
The elegance of that west wall, gently set back from the street, contrasts with the forceful concrete-block facade of the main entrance, an opaque, expressionless screen. Inside the building this quality of restraint gives way to an intoxicating blend of muscularity and delicacy. The deep triangulated beams of the ceilings, with their deep shadows, lend the rooms a mystical air; the stark silolike concrete cylinder housing the staircase reaffirms the galleries’ status as sacred space.
Even the minor alterations are dead on. The lobby was renovated by Joel Sanders, a rising New York talent who shows Kahn the proper respect without kowtowing to the master. Mr. Sanders’s subdued contemporary furniture and discreet ebony cabinets reinforce the building’s intimate atmosphere, transforming the lobby into a welcoming living room.
From here you gaze out at one of the original building’s strangest features: the incorporation of an old rough-hewn stone retaining wall that Kahn used to frame his outdoor courtyard to lock the building into its historic surroundings. But the true revelation occurs when you step into the galleries.
Every museum director and curator embarking on a new building project should be required to tour these rooms. The potent thrust of the concrete-beam ceiling draws you into them as if you were being lured into a sacred tomb. You gaze up in awe, and then turn to the paintings.
Most of the paintings, which range from early Italian Renaissance to contemporary, are displayed on partitions supported on steel legs that break the rooms down into a series of small informal spaces. Paintings by Monet, Renoir and Pissarro hang in big gilded frames along the concrete-block wall that runs the length of the main facade.
These are not the crude concrete blocks associated with prisons and old college dormitories. Custom designed, their small dimensions — four by six inches — look comparatively refined. The paintings pop.
As with all of Kahn’s great buildings the entire space is animated by his masterly handling of light. Big plate-glass windows are discreetly hidden behind thin white scrims. A narrow vertical slot of glass overlooking the entrance court gives visitors an opportunity to orient themselves vis-à-vis the outdoors and allows a stream of light to wash down a back wall.
The stunning variety of the light and the tension between the forms and materials — the delicacy of the partitions, say, versus the brute weight of the concrete — keep us alert. Everything here feels warmly alive.
Students in the "Exploring Colorado Agricultural Systems" class at Colorado State University have an introductory session with President Amy Parsons and Temple Grandin. May 16, 2023
London Midland Class 323's 323206 and 323243 await departure from University with the 12:29 2P16 Redditch to Lichfield Trent Valley.
Christmas Eve 1977 - Sorry Geoff!
45057 hugs the Worcester Canal as it leaves Birmingham, approaching University with a westbound relief service - remember them?
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'they should have crashed on a mate's couch'
Education campaign against drink driving among students.
Albury campus
Charles Sturt University
Albury NSW Australia
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University of Illinois Assembly Hall, Urbana, Illinois. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Hajvery University’s Convocation 2012 was held at the HU Euro campus on Saturday, 29 December, 2012. Convocation is the formal ceremony for the conferral of degrees. It is our time honored way to celebrate Our Students Academic accomplishments, and an opportunity for the Graduates to share this important milestone with family and friends. HU Convocation was presided over by Honorable Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman. Also present on the occasion were HU Board of Governors Chairperson Atif Mushtaq, and other B.O.G members, Deans & HoDs of Departments, and distinguished guests from all walks of life. Hajvery University (HU) is one of the leading Universities in Lahore. HU is Chartered by Govt. Of Pakistan, Accredited by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) and rated W category. HU is a progressive, Student Centric University, focused on offering rigorous, market driven courses in Business, Fashion, Engineering, Computer sciences, Textile Design, Media Studies, Economics, Commerce, Pharmacy & English.For details: Web: www.hup.edu.pk, UAN: 042-111-777-007 email: info@hup.edu.pk
King's College Chapel is one of the most famous medieval buildings in England. The foundation stone was laid in 1446 and it took over a century to build which included an interruption by the War of the Roses. It was final completed in 1547.
The building on the right is the Gibb's building, named after its architect, was begun in 1724. It is constructed in White Portland Stone.
Cambridge. Although it began life as a separate community Cambridge is part of the metro area of Boston these days. We will have a walk through Harvard Yard, the famous quadrangle of the prestigious university, dating from 1636. We will also see the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the other prestigious university in Cambridge. A third institution is Radcliffe College for Women which adjoins Harvard Yard as in the early days women were not admitted to Harvard. Then we have a tour of nearby Longfellow House, a National Historic Monument. You will remember perhaps from your school days that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, amongst many other works and poems, wrote an epic poem called ‘Hiawatha’. Hiawatha was the one who united the Five Nations of Indians into the Iroquois Nation in New York State. But he was also a mythical figure, a spiritual leader and prophet. Longfellow’s poem of 1855 was the first to use Indian mythology and stories and he also attempted to use some Indian words or derivations of them. Many of the sites mentioned in the poem are located near Minneapolis in the Mid West and have nothing to do with New York State. The poem was very much in the romantic tradition and a few lines were often incorporated into many school texts, even in Australia. Hiawatha’s lover was Minnehaha.
Longfellow House is a good example of an American style wooden house built in 1759 for a British loyalist, John Vassall. When the Revolution and War looked imminent in 1774 he fled. Then General George Washington used the house as his headquarters for the Continental Army in 1775-76 during the siege of Boston. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow started boarding in the house around 1820 and became its owner in 1843. He lived here until his death in 1882. In 1913 Longfellow’s children vacated the house and set up a trust to manage it as a memorial to Washington and to Longfellow. It is now owned by the US government, is fully furnished and the garden has been restored much as Longfellow designed it. It provides a window into domestic life in the mid 19th century in Cambridge. The house contains over 10,000 books that belonged to Longfellow and the dining room table around which many important visitors met. In December 2010 it was renamed the Washington - Longfellow National Historic Site to give more prominence to Washington.
Brescia University College is a Catholic liberal arts college for women affiliated with the University of Western Ontario. Brescia Hall, seen here, was completed in 1925.