Huuuuge resolution image here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/aerial-view-of-the-university-of-pittsburgh-campus-library-of-congress.html

  • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    It also has hundreds of classrooms designed to look like traditional learning spaces from (nearly) every country of the world, but if I remember correctly most of the building higher than the 4th floor is unused as a classroom because they are not built to code. The inside is incredible gothic architecture, and inspired the design of a skyscraper in pittsburgh called the PPG building

    • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      PPG Place is so fucking cool. I'm trying to recreate Market Square in Hammer so I can make a gmod map (though I'm completely new to it). I dread the day when I eventually get to PPG Place.

  • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The tallest academic building is horribly ugly. This is the library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

    https://res.cloudinary.com/scalefunder/image/upload/c_crop,h_1243,w_2196,x_337,y_240/c_scale,h_343,w_606/v1/UMass_Amherst/tamfev8ojyxftzznsl78

    Edit: Never mind, it's the tallest academic library specifically, not tallest academic building. Also there's peregrine falcons that nest at the top and the nest box has a livesteam. The stream is down for the season though ):

    • regul [any]
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      2 years ago

      I'd assume it's Moscow State University's main building.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I've been up there! It was raining when we went but up at the top it was snowing :3. Kinda neat to see, I hadn't thought about how depending on weather conditions you could have snowflakes which melt and turn to rain by the time they get to ground level.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I just came here to make a joke about "higher education"