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A Metra outbound Rock Island local passes the Illinois Institute of Technology's main campus building as it approaches Lou Jones Station. Leading the way was Metra 201 in its now gone classic blue scheme.
Morning light on the pre-Victorian Meanwood Institute. I read that they have two snooker tables made in 1885.
In April we paid another visit to the Barber Institute, located on Birmingham University’s campus. Housed in a Grade I Art Deco style building, it was opened in 1939. It was set up by Martha Constance Hattie Barber in memory of her husband Henry Barber, a wealthy Birmingham property developer, who had died in 1927. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts was founded in 1932 and when she died only months later, she left all her money to it. From the start it was decided that it would purchase only the finest works, and this has held true. This is a marble lion's head, made in Italy in the 13th century, and probably the spout for a water fountain.
This photo is part of a walk through the campus of the Aspen Institute inspired and designed by Bauhaus artist (architect and designer) Herbert Bayer.
Salem, Massachusetts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_Institute
Scanned Color Negative, Kodak Gold 100, Circa March 1989
Repurposed as the Neighbourhood centre is this lovely Mechanics Institute building in the small town of Ballan, near Ballarat. There is an interesting iron sculpture outside the front. I liked the modern signage and solar panels contrasting with the older building sign. Mechanics Insitutes were forerunners of the modern public library plus had skill development /learning as their major purpose. Happy Window Wednesday.
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Plus Moorabool Earth Totem by Peter Blizzard
Moorabool Earth Totem is a sculpture by well-known artist Peter Blizzard. It is located outside the interesting historical Mechanics Institute building in Ballan.
Location: 143 Inglis Street, Ballan
This photo is part of a walk through the campus of the Aspen Institute inspired and designed by Bauhaus artist (architect and designer) Herbert Bayer.
Scott Tallon Walker were the architectural firm chosen to design UCD Conway Institute due to their prior experience in the design of scientific buildings
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Causeyside Street, Paisley
The Russell Institute is a building in Paisley, Scotland.
The building was generously donated by Agnes Russell to the Burgh of Paisley as a memorial to her two brothers, Thomas and Robert Russell, who passed away in 1913 and 1920 respectively. Initially, it served as a child welfare clinic, but today, Renfrewshire Council utilizes it as a multi purpose facility.
"The original Leongatha Mechanics' Institute was erected on the Memorial Hall site in 1891. The present building, consisting of two large rooms and a billiard saloon, was opened by The Hon J.E. Mackey on 26 March 1912. It functioned as a library, meeting room and billiard room until 1982. The Leongatha and District Historical Society was given the use of the building by the Shire of Woorayl in 1983."
Source: plaque on the building
Sri Mulam Shastiabdapurthi Memorial Institute,built in 1917 to commemorate the 60th birthday of HH Sri Mulam Thirunal, Maharaja of Travancore
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"Beneath the commonwealth, there is a cancer known as the institute. A malignant growth which must be cut, before it affects the surface. They are experimenting with dangerous technologies, and could prove to be the worlds undoing a second time."
R&D Center A&B - the LEGO inspired box art parody (not a real set. sorry folks)
"The word of the Muad'Dib will penetrate deep within their hearts... one way or another..."
Built for the Burgomeister "R&D Lab" category of DA4, supporting General Farok. The embedded image in the comments meets the A&B criteria of designing LEGO inspired box art.
The research and development lab staff include:
- Master Administrator (main floor); oversees the overall running of the research institute, as well as the data analytics.
- Master of Chemistry (top floor); leads research in spice production, refinement, and weaponized usages. Controls the refining column that rises through the building.
- Master of Resources (in vehicle); procures all resources needed by the lab. Also the primary driver of the desert track ATV stored in the bottom level. The grand staircase in front of the building lifts up for the vehicle to pass through.
- Master of Arms (bottom level); tests all weapons for combat worthiness.
- Master of Communications (bottom level with headset); researches sonic weapons, specifically attuned to the "weirding way".
This is a section of a fence that surrounds the Poppenhusen Institute in College Point, Queens. It was built in 1868 and housed the first free kindergarten in the United States.
From the series The Institute.
Closeup photo of an architectural model of the Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing.
Cyanotype print on Rives BFK paper, 2006
Holly Springs, MS
On December 10, 2013, Preserve Marshall County Holly Springs announced that Chalmers Institute is the recipient of $80,000 in grant funding from the 2013 Community Heritage Preservation grant program.
Chalmers, built in 1837, has been largely abandoned since the 1980s. It is best recognized as having been the first chartered university in Mississippi. It is currently being rehabilitated into a functional space for the community.
The grant will be used for the replacement of the roof, and the rehabilitation of the interior of Chalmers Institute.
Read my article from the South Reporter on my website: www.meganwolfephoto.com/wp/2013/12/chalmers-institute-gra...
Bendigo Advertiser
Saturday 20 July 1918 p7
"RED CROSS FETE AT KURTING
INGLEWOOD.—A large gathering took place at Kurting on Wednesday afternoon. The occasion being an effort in
aid of the Red Cross. The affair, which was formally opened by
Cr W.C.J. Kelly, one of the representatives of the
South Riding of the Korong Shire Council, took the form of a sports meeting, with all the other branches for
money making usual at such efforts, and was in every
respect a success. The arrangements reflected credit on the hon secretary, Mr E. Morse.
A "queen" competition resulted in Miss H. McGurgan being "crowned." Her income from the event was £20/10/, while
the net total from this branch of the effort was £89 . The proceedings were extended into the evening, when a concert was held in the new hall just erected at an expense of about £330, and which is to be used as a Mechanics' Institute and for other public purposes. The honor of declaring it open fell to Cr. J. J. O'Brien, another South Riding member of the Korong Shire.
Like the afternoon effort, the concert and ball which followed, were thoroughly satisfactory events."
Three pieces of carving from antiquity, about which not a great deal is known. This is a torso of Venus, from the 1st century AD, probably a copy and a study for a much larger piece.
The Ayalon Institute was a secret ammunition factory disguised as part of a kibbutz to fool the British back in the 1940s. Jewish people used the factory in their efforts to fight for the independent state of Israel. Organizers went to extreme measures to build and sustain this secret factory within the kibbutz. Between 1945 and 1948, the Ayalon Institute produced more than 2 million 9mm bullets.
During the British mandate, the Jewish people began planning ways to make machinery and guns to fight for independence. While manufacturing guns didn’t prove to be that difficult, it was very challenging to make bullets for the guns.
So, a group of Jewish people decided to build a ammunitions factory under a kibbutz, which is a communal area of land designed for a specific purpose, such as farming. The area was near a British base. In 1945, the group built structures on the surface that resembled a kibbutz and in about three weeks, they built an entire ammunitions factory eight meters underground. The factory was about the size of a tennis court.
The factory stopped operating in 1948, three years after being built. In 1987, the factory was restored and turned into a museum that is now open to the public.
Three pieces of carving from antiquity, about which not a great deal is known. This is more identifiable, being the head of Prudence, carved in marble, from early 15th century Naples. Prudence was one of the four Cardinal Virtues, and has two faces to represent her looking backwards to learn lessons from the past but also looking forward.