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rechlin Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 20 hours ago, hindesky said: I know the opera hall is getting a lot of hate on here, but I think it fits the architecture of the rest of the campus perfectly. Can't wait to see all the landscaping finished. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, rechlin said: I know the opera hall is getting a lot of hate on here, but I think it fits the architecture of the rest of the campus perfectly. Can't wait to see all the landscaping finished. They could have at least designed better cupolas, and put them on both sides. The ones on there right now are pretty weak. Now the front of this, looks really good, though I've been meaning to chat with our classical detailing design expert, at my work, for his opinion of this, and if they did the detailing right. Edited February 10, 2020 by Luminare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Now the students have to worry about hawks attacking them too, found the bird watching over the soccer fields. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 The road on the west side of the new Music Hall is finally open. Football field is being built in the west side parking lot. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Mock up in the works for the Sid Richardson dorms. Road work around the stadium. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gmac Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 On 4/11/2020 at 4:39 PM, hindesky said: The road on the west side of the new Music Hall is finally open. Football field is being built in the west side parking lot. They're putting up a bubble dome over that field eventually. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post hindesky Posted June 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2020 (edited) Sid Richardson dorms are topped out, Music Hall almost finished and the football practice bubble is being laid out. https://arizonbuildingsystems.com/sport-domes/ Edited June 14, 2020 by hindesky 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gmac Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Time lapse video of dome being inflated. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangledwoods Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 for a school that spends so much money on their buildings, it blows my mind that they would go with the cheapest / ugliest possible building. Is this thing supposed to be temporary? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 They don't spend that much on their athletic facilities. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 15 hours ago, tangledwoods said: for a school that spends so much money on their buildings, it blows my mind that they would go with the cheapest / ugliest possible building. Is this thing supposed to be temporary? ^^^ it's an indoor AIR INFUSED BUBBLE. definitely temporary... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Mock up for the Sid Richardson dorms. Brick has arrived. Football practice bubble. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 A quite significant campus development that hasn't been mentioned here yet: there appears to be a groundswell of support among the student body to remove the statue of William Marsh Rice that has occupied a central position in the quad for 90 years, due to his history as a slave owner: https://www.houstonpress.com/news/rice-asked-to-remove-statue-of-slave-owner-namesake-11479143 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainJilliams Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 16 hours ago, mkultra25 said: A quite significant campus development that hasn't been mentioned here yet: there appears to be a groundswell of support among the student body to remove the statue of William Marsh Rice that has occupied a central position in the quad for 90 years, due to his history as a slave owner: https://www.houstonpress.com/news/rice-asked-to-remove-statue-of-slave-owner-namesake-11479143 If it's attached to slavery in any way, it seems like it's only a matter of time. I wouldn't be surprised if they start a discussion to rename the college as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A. Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) This is part of a really hot-button topic... so I'm going to try my best not to stick my foot in my mouth... Maybe the statue should be removed from its prominent position and placed somewhere low key where William Marsh Rice is simply acknowledged rather than celebrated. To me, removing the statue all together seems like another way to continue ignoring the past, albeit a different way than just leaving a racist slave owner's figure looming in a central position of the quad. If the statue is erased completely, where does it end? Is the Rice family and their name still burdened with the sins of the father? Rice University is now a brand... Should the University be renamed, which would probably result in a very detrimental identity crisis? Sam Houston owned slaves... Should we rename our city because it's named after him? I would like to think that the Rice University name and the city of Houston name at this point so many years, students, citizens, accomplishments, and failures after their founding have come to symbolize and stand for more than just the person they were named after. If the statue could be placed somewhere else as part of an exhibit for Rice University's history, of which Mr. Rice's life is an inextricable part (including the terrible things he did), that could be more educational and cathartic in the long run. It might be a way of acknowledging the past while going on to explain that the university does not condone racism nor discrimination of any kind and that the school supports people in all walks of life. Edited July 8, 2020 by J.A. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 The circumstances surrounding Rice's statue are a bit different than other statues around the country which have been removed or relocated. It is technically a gravesite as Rice's ashes are interred in the base of the statue. IIRC, the Board of Trustees would have to approve the statue's removal, and despite student assertions to the contrary, the wishes of alumni will absolutely be taken into account before any such action is undertaken. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I can't see a strong consensus in favor of removal emerging among alumni. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 (edited) Came across these 2 fenced off areas near the intersection of Alumni Dr and Collage Way. This western one is by the south servery and the smaller by Hansen College. Sign says "Rice Tent Structures", @monarch is going to love this . Edited July 11, 2020 by hindesky 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 ^^^ @hindesky atta boy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 4 hours ago, hindesky said: Came across these 2 fenced off areas near the intersection of Alumni Dr and Collage Way. This western one is by the south servery and the smaller by Hansen College. Sign says "Rice Tent Structures", @monarch is going to love this Those sites are where Old Wiess College and the previous Wiess masters' house used to sit. Directly across College Way was the Wiess parking lot, which went away in 1984 when Herring Hall was built on that site. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 (edited) The newspaper has the story (of course it's New York's newspaper, not Houston's): From the New York Times: Rice University, in Houston, is building nine big new classrooms this summer, all of them outdoors. Five are open-sided circus tents that the university is buying, and another four are semi-permanent structures that workers are building in an open field near dorms, Edited July 13, 2020 by Houston19514 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Rice-University-is-building-nine-outdoor-15407618.php Rice University plans to take some fall courses outdoors amid the COVID-19 pandemic and will build nine structures on campus to help maintain social distancing guidelines. Kevin Kirby, Rice’s vice president for administration and chair of its Crisis Management Advisory Committee, said in a release that as the college maps out the maximum number of people for every space on campus, it plans to construct nine outdoor spaces to use for in-person instruction, lectures and activities. Rice has purchased four temporary 50 by 90-foot structures that will hold 50 students and an instructor in an outdoor space. The structures, to be hosted on the open field next to university’s Hanzen College, will have light, cooling, heat and ventilation, and will have audiovisual capabilities, he wrote. Kirby noted that they are also designed to withstand hurricane winds. The spaces, which will be available before classes begin this fall, will be used for instruction throughout the day, academic lectures in the late afternoon, and for student meeting and study spaces in the evening. Additionally, Rice will host five 40 by 60-foot open-sided tents adjacent to its academic buildings and will purchase portable camping-style chairs for students to use outdoors. Kirby said Rice administration will also ask students who have portable chairs to bring them to campus. How the tents will be used has yet to be determined, Kirby said. None of the structures have been built yet. brittany.britto@chron.com 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 9 minutes ago, hindesky said: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Rice-University-is-building-nine-outdoor-15407618.php Rice University plans to take some fall courses outdoors amid the COVID-19 pandemic and will build nine structures on campus to help maintain social distancing guidelines. Kevin Kirby, Rice’s vice president for administration and chair of its Crisis Management Advisory Committee, said in a release that as the college maps out the maximum number of people for every space on campus, it plans to construct nine outdoor spaces to use for in-person instruction, lectures and activities. Rice has purchased four temporary 50 by 90-foot structures that will hold 50 students and an instructor in an outdoor space. The structures, to be hosted on the open field next to university’s Hanzen College, will have light, cooling, heat and ventilation, and will have audiovisual capabilities, he wrote. Kirby noted that they are also designed to withstand hurricane winds. The spaces, which will be available before classes begin this fall, will be used for instruction throughout the day, academic lectures in the late afternoon, and for student meeting and study spaces in the evening. Additionally, Rice will host five 40 by 60-foot open-sided tents adjacent to its academic buildings and will purchase portable camping-style chairs for students to use outdoors. Kirby said Rice administration will also ask students who have portable chairs to bring them to campus. How the tents will be used has yet to be determined, Kirby said. None of the structures have been built yet. brittany.britto@chron.com Cool. Someone at the Chronicle must have a subscription to The New York Times. 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 1 minute ago, Houston19514 said: Cool. Someone at the Chronicle must have a subscription to The New York Times. 😉 I'd like to believe they get their info here 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 6 minutes ago, hindesky said: I'd like to believe they get their info here 🙂 They could do worse (and often do). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangledwoods Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Quote Kirby said Rice administration will also ask students who have portable chairs to bring them to campus. How the tents will be used has yet to be determined, Kirby said. Let me get this straight, you pay a crap ton of money for your tuition and the school turns around and ask you to bring your own chair??? 4 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/college-campus-fall-covid-uneasy-dangerous-staff-15464562.php#photo-19776442 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityliving Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 When I saw them I thought they were building greenhouses for plants.🌱 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 Covid Open Tents. https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/Project/TABS2020021866 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 All the fencing is down around the Music Hall. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Those "tents" appear to be more like a modern day version of a quonset hut. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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monarch Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 ^^^ my gosh... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Boring Bland Banal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangledwoods Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 what is the seating capacity on the theater? by those photos, it seems like there are very few seats... I wander what this works out to $/seat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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