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The Steve Miller Band at the unveiling of the new Austin City Limits backdrop and studio, Austin Texas, February 24, 2011.
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Aug 27, 2008 would have been the 100th birthday of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The Tower at The University of Texas at Austin was lighted orange with "100" on each side in the evening to commerate the 100th Birthday of LBJ (the 36th President of the United States).
The "100" is a bit obscured here, but it's clearly visible on the southern face of the tower.
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The full length portrait statue of President Woodrow Wilson, located on the Upper South Mall, east of the entrance to the Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin, was designed by sculptor Pompeo Coppini. It was one of six portrait statues originally completed to surround Coppini's Littlefield Fountain that were instead incorporated into Paul Cret's landscape program for the campus. The Wilson statue was originally designed to be mounted on a different base and was not to be viewed from the rear.
The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contsructed of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.
The Main Building, known colloquially as The Tower or the UT Tower, located at the top of what was formally known as College Hill at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus, was built from 1934 to 1937 by architect Paul Philippe Cret. The Victorian-Gothic Building's 307-foot tower is just 4 feet shorter than the 311-foot Texas Capitol, and has 30 floors, although only 27 are accessible by elevator. The building is contracted of beige limestone bricks quarried in Bedford, Indiana. The Tower clock faces, the University's official timepieces, are trimmed in gold leaf and have a diameter of 14-feet, 8 inches. A 56-bell carillon, Knicker Carillon, crowns the structure, chiming the Westminster Peal every quarter hour.
An observation deck, lined with a stainless steel lattice, sits just beneath the clock faces. On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Witman, an architectural engineering major at the university, barricaded himself on the deck with a scoped Remington 700 deer rifle and various other weapons. In a 96-minute stand-off, Whitman killed 14 Austin residents and wounded many more. The deck was closed after that until 1968 and then closed again in 1974 following nine suicide jumps. Reopened in 1999, it was closed for two years following the attacks of September 11, 2001, but reopened with additional security in 2004.
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Although forty acres were set aside on College Hill for the campus in 1839, the university formally opened in 1883 with one building, six schools, eight professors and 221 students. Today the main campus, located a quarter mile from the Texas State Capitol in central Austin, has 150 buildings and covering more than 350 acres and the University is home to over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 15 colleges and schools and more than 3,000 faculty.
While working at my desk on September 13, 2016, I paused to snap a photo of the view on this beautiful, sunny day. This shot faces north through the window of our bedroom (unit 2010 in the 360 Condominiums building). You can see how the landscape has changed over the years if you compare this pic against a 2008 photo taken from our balcony when we first moved into the building.
I had previously lamented the loss of our view of the University of Texas Tower from our balcony after the Aspen Heights apartment building (white tower toward the upper right) was erected in front of it. Happily, I later realized we still had a UT Tower view from our bedroom window; you can see it just to the left of the Aspen Heights building, and to the right of the tall black Dobie Center dorm building.
Some of the other buildings that dominate the view from our bedroom window include the six-story Cirrus Logic office building (along the left), the Seven Apartments residential tower (center of frame), and the IBC Bank Plaza (far right). The patio visible along the lower right of the frame is our building's ''Capitol View Terrace,'' which is accessible only to residents who live on the 17th floor.
The University of Texas audience for the bands, Need to Breathe and Gavin DeGraw, Austin Texas, October 23 2008. The show was sponsored by the Student Events Center of the Texas Union and held at the base of the UT Tower. The Texas Capitol is in the background.
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November 6, 2016, was a very wet, rainy Sunday -- but the afternoon ended on a high note with a beautiful double rainbow. I took this shot from the balcony of our condo (unit 2010 in the 360 Condominiums building). This view faces north; you can see how the landscape has changed over the years if you compare this pic against a 2008 photo taken from our balcony when we first moved into the building.
The end of the rainbow appears to be touching Dobie Center; and if you look closely, you can see the top of the University of Texas Tower to its right, peeking out above the Rise on 8th apartment building by Aspen Heights.
Among the other buildings visible in this shot are the Seven Apartments residential tower (tall building toward left) and the IBC Bank Plaza (glass building at lower right). At the upper right, you can see the dome of the Texas Capitol.
On Sunday, November 29, Mike and I got to see the The University of Texas Tower lit orange for the fifth (and final) time that month. When the tower is illuminated with orange lighting, it typically signals a UT sports win or some other celebratory event. In this case, it was lighted orange in honor of the UT Longhorns volleyball team winning the 2015 Big 12 Championship with a 3-0 victory over Oklahoma. I stepped out on the balcony of our condo (unit 2010 in the 360 Condominiums building) to capture this shot. (Apologies for the poor/grainy quality of this pic; my iPhone doesn't take very clear nighttime photos...) If you look closely, you'll see the orange-lit UT Tower near the upper center of the photo; and you can see the Texas State Capitol building toward the far right of the frame.