froginaustin
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What's going to happen to Landreth? If anything?
What's going to happen to Landreth? If anything?
December 8, 1980...I was watching Monday Night Football (Patriots and Dolphins I think) and listening to Double Fantasy over my headphones... it broke my heart.I thought it died long before that.
I think they’re repurposing some spaces that the Music Center will take over (band and orchestra halls) but mostly staying the same. Fine arts has been incredibly cramped for years—and honestly even the 2 new buildings still leave them tight.
And the pipe organ.Fine arts needs performance or display space, and rehearsal space and studios for visual arts. Those needs can call for a lot of bricks and mortar, just as I suppose lab space for hard sciences and engineering can. Classroom-based programs need classrooms, faculty offices and, traditionally, a brick-and-mortar library that may or may not be rendered increasingly obsolescent by the interwebz.
Insufficient practice space was a problem for performing arts ~50 years ago when I experienced it. No music school has enough performance space as far as I know, so I won't belabor that. Ballet got the old gym a few decades back. Visual arts got a new building years after I moved on. I hope it's music's turn to have something approaching the ideal for a first class school for performers.
I hope that the old Landreth auditorium with its world-class acoustics is still there and sticks around. It was a rare treasure (because of the acoustics); hopefully it still is.
It looks really badass.This incredible addition profoundly enhances the Carter's eastern facade and also seems to create an intimate bowl like
sense of enclosure within the stadium's interior. First Class!
That's hard to believe.
If you haven’t been on campus in a while, this video has some great shots of campus. Includes the new founders’ statue area, neeley school plaza area, some of the new worth hills, and some great aerial shots at the end of the new music center and fine arts building as well as the commons and east side of AGCS.
It’s easy to forget how beautiful the campus is. The trees along university are just incredible. I remember when the commons opened it felt very manufactured. Trees are coming in down there around the union and it’s all starting to coalesce into the rest of campus.
I never got to see the new facilities master plan that came out a few years back, so I don’t know what the plan is. But I really hope they do eventually nix that big Kelly alumni center surface lot and turn it into green space like they did the old DMC front lot. They also need to re-facade the basketball practice facility with its metal building/ half-assed banner coverings. Would really finish off the new east side of the athletics complex and finish tying the complex into main campus. Feel like they could nix the lot in front of Baugh for a building and green space at some point, too, to better tie in worth hills. But that’s a lot of parking spaces lost.
I heard they would move that parking to the wide open spaces in the lower west side bowl without having to change anything. Seems like a win-win for you.No don’t take my parking! I do agree that it would look a lot better green. But they would have to come up with a good solution for premium football parking.
If you haven’t been on campus in a while, this video has some great shots of campus. Includes the new founders’ statue area, neeley school plaza area, some of the new worth hills, and some great aerial shots at the end of the new music center and fine arts building as well as the commons and east side of AGCS.
It’s easy to forget how beautiful the campus is. The trees along university are just incredible. I remember when the commons opened it felt very manufactured. Trees are coming in down there around the union and it’s all starting to coalesce into the rest of campus.
I never got to see the new facilities master plan that came out a few years back, so I don’t know what the plan is. But I really hope they do eventually nix that big Kelly alumni center surface lot and turn it into green space like they did the old DMC front lot. They also need to re-facade the basketball practice facility with its metal building/ half-assed banner coverings. Would really finish off the new east side of the athletics complex and finish tying the complex into main campus. Feel like they could nix the lot in front of Baugh for a building and green space at some point, too, to better tie in worth hills. But that’s a lot of parking spaces lost.
The trees along university are just incredible. I remember when the commons opened it felt very manufactured. Trees are coming in down there around the union and it’s all starting to coalesce into the rest of campus.