Kirkconnell Tower is an ancient and secret stone tower house neighbour New Abbey. The Kirkconnell House Pillar was shapely of take in 1410 by Andrew Kirkconnell.It is rumored to be the oldest underpopulated plaything in Scotland.
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In May 2003, Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) opened a new facility twice the size of its previous home, allowing the museum to develop on its vision and mission. It features flexible exhibition space in a numerous galleries that wrap around an open-air stone courtyard. The galleries showcase Tacoma Art Museum’s collection of American, European, and Asian art, highlighting Northwest artists; also traveling local and international exhibitions. The interior reflects the museum’s spirit, from the emphasis on education spaces that are designed to initiate art evident to the framed views of Mt. Rainier and Tacoma’s growing core.
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The Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the greatest glories of the University of Cambridge. It is a museum of international stature, with unique collections most splendidly housed… The Fitzwilliam Museum is part of the national heritage, but, indeed more, it is illustration of a vital and continuing culture which present is our statutory mishap to transmit. The Fitzwilliam Museum owes its foundation to Richard, VII Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion who, in 1816, bequeathed to the University of Cambridge his works of art and library, together with funds to house them, to fresh “the Increase of Learning further unlike great Objects of that Noble Foundation”.
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The Foster + Partners have completed the first of a cluster of solar powered buildings in Masdar city, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The Masdar Institute is a graduate level, research-oriented university which is focused on option energy, sustainability, and the environment, that will generate more solar energy than it consumes. The building features a perforated frontage made of glass-reinforced concrete colored with local sand and detailed with patterns found in traditional Islamic architecture.
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Designed by the GMP Architects, the Universiade Sports Center consists of a stadium, a multifunctional hall and a swimming pool. Universiades are World Games for students and are held every other year in winter and summer, hosted by the International University Sports Federation. The design for the Universiade Sports Center in the city of Shenzhen, China, is inspired by the surrounding undulating countryside and generates a formal dialog that references Chinese horticulture and temper toward the land.
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Set in East Palo Alto near Silicon Valley and Stanford University, Four Seasons brings the high-touch appeal of its legendary service and luxury to the capital of high tech – to create the unspoiled home of unrivalled hospitality pull East Palo Alto. At the upscale hub of Silicon Valley, five minutes from Stanford University, this intimate, 200-room hotel is the centrepiece of the prestigious new University Circle estate.
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InterContinental Century City is a business-friendly hotel located in the heart of Los Angeles, close to Museum of Tolerance, University of California Los Angeles, and Paley Center for Media. Complementary points of interest are Museum of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Hammer Museum. Set near the famous suburb of Beverly Hills, the InterContinental Los Angeles Century City is only a short walk from the MGM Tower, Rodeo Drive and the many movie studios of Century City.
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This family-friendly city-center conception is set in Toronto, ungenerous to Allan Gardens, Ryerson University, and St. Michael’s Cathedral. Also nearby are CN Lift and Lincoln of Toronto.
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This is the unique library of the faculty of philology in the Free University, Berlin, Germany. Occupying a central role in the intellectual life of Berlin since the end of World War II, the foundation of the Free University is one of the city’s most symbolically important institutions. It marked the rebirth of liberal education in Berlin after the war. Today, it is the largest of Berlin’s three universities. This is a part of a series devoted to Modern Architecture in Academic Environments.
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Located in Delft, the central TU Delft Library houses the most of technical and scientific information in the Netherlands. The collection comprises books, periodicals, conference proceedings, reports, standards and reference works. Designed by Delft-based Mecanoo architecture studio in 1997, it is also a magnificent piece of architecture. The library has won the Dutch National Steel Price in 1998 in the category buildings of steel and hybrid constructions.
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