Word: toweritis
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Hagebölling then exhibited the projects she directed with Andreas Marat, who leads the Water Museum Mülheim in Cologne. They involved a series of installations housed inside the gallery space of a large water tower-turned-museum. One installation measured the magnetic field surrounding visitors who entered the space, which in turn caused glowing water to flow across a large disk on the gallery floor...
...nearly 400 year-old walls can grab at least some attention. But when the spotlight shines on Harvard’s tepid historical exclusivity and even its more meritocratic modern-day place in America, it often fans the flames of scorn that burn under our ivory tower...
Over the past decade, the spread of broadband Internet has revolutionized academic information delivery and made it far more accessible for those outside the ivory tower. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology pioneered the movement with its OpenCourseWare initiative, which has since spread to many other universities. Popular lecture videos and course documents from some of the best academic institutions can now be consumed free of charge by the world’s most eager learners at only the click of a mouse...
...means a lot,” Dartmouth coach Andrew Tower said. “I’m sure it means a lot to both teams. Every conference game means a lot to how you do at the end of the year [which effects] your ability to make the NCAA tournament...
...famous and most starkly beautiful buildings in the world, both for Chicago, where he spent almost his entire career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In 1970 the 100-story John Hancock Center was a revolution in skyscraper design. Working with Skidmore's brilliant engineer Fazlur Khan, Graham conceived a tapering tower with an exterior system of structural supports, including massive X-braces that made its faade a knockout emblem of architectural force. In 1974 Graham and Khan produced another masterpiece with the Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower). Once the world's tallest building, it drew the severe black...