Most Beautiful Campuses Worldwide

By Vanessa Ford

A campus university is seen as the place offering student accommodation, teaching and studying facilities, and extra-curriculum activities. Nowadays, the young people long for being enrolled into not only a prestigious university or college with the best teaching and learning methods but also those with beautiful campus including large botanical gardens or lakes. They can be said to be the creative design of the leaders of universities in attempt to facilitate students’ study and life. Here are the most impressive campuses all over the world:

 

Towers Grey Castle of Arcadia University

Unlike the modern facilities of other campuses, Grey Towers Castle, the U.S National Historic Landmark, which lies inside the campus of Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, is a long traditional building. Completed by Horace Trumbauer, this impressive campus was started building in 1893 and purchased in 1929 for $712,500. The interior illustrates Trumbauer\'s eclectic style with an option of different French influences from the Renaissance through the age of Louis XV.

 

Towers Grey Castle is seen from Easton Road entrance

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Significantly, STATA center designed by Frank Gehry is the computer science department, information and intelligence services and the department for linguistics and philosophy. This modern building features numerous short tower blocks, which are curved and lean at unnatural angles. The complex is situated on two eight-storey \'U\' shaped towers including the Gates (G) and the Dreyfoos (D) towers. Also, this center contains an auditorium, four lecture rooms, childcare facility, food court, fitness centre, and swimming pool.

 

The Stata Center is a new complex of buildings on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus

 

The Stata Center is the typical icon of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Ørestad College

Ørestad College is situated in Copenhagen, Denmark and is designed by 3XN architects. The Ørestad College will be the first to implement new educational issues in terms of subjects, organization and teaching systems with the introduction of IT as the major educational tool.The college is interconnected vertically and horizontally. Four boomerang shaped floor plans with four study zones of each are rotated to provide the powerful super structure constructing the overall frame of the building. With all these convenient and modern facilities, Ørestad College becomes the desire of all students all over the world for their study environment.

 

Ørestad College is designed and completed by 3XN architects

 

The rotation opens an aspect of each floor to the vertical tall central atrium and supplies space to serve the purpose of community and expresses the college’s longing for interdisciplinary education

 

Students can feel relaxed even when they are studying with the aid of IT tools

 

Miami Dade College

Designed by the company named Oppenheim Architecture + Design, Miami Dade College is well-known for its eye-catching new campus center. To be situated on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami, the building is a quadrangle shape g with a striking glass and steel exoskeleton and maximizes natural ventilation and public spaces to enjoy. One more thing, the center is equipped with wind turbines and solar hot water collectors on its roof, which is considered as a symbol of green environment.

 

The center will be around 250,000 square feet with a two-level commercial space covering the whole building and an open-air campus arts quad on the third level.

 

A sloping auditorium inside is also included to serve as a venue for different cultural events

 

The towers will feature offices, an athletic center, meeting facilities, a residential area with one-bedroom rental units, small studios, and a full service hotel

 

School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University

School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore is famous for its hug green roof made of an organic, vegetated form blending landscape and structure, nature and high-tech as well as symbolizing the creativity. The glass walls offer a visual exchange which helps students and teachers to view the building, the surrounding landscape along with the interior plaza as fluid spaces. Meanwhile, the curving green roofs make this building striking among the other structures on campus. Surely, this campus not only represents the soul of an art school but also promises to be concept campus model for most universities all over the world in terms of environmental friendliness.

 

Planted grasses are raised to create a curve above the roof

 

Its interior spaces included concrete walls and columns, cement-sand floors, timber railings and a neutral palette in different shape and size

 

 

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I am 25 years old, and I study materials on education, likes reading and writing. In free time, I often join literature clubs and share my interest with others.

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Newest Stunning Images of Apple Campus 2

By Henes Pitt

Apple Inc. has recently released the newest stunning images of Apple Circular Headquarters to the City Council at Cupertino with more details and renderings of the future campus which will count with 2.8 million square-feet with four workplace floors for 12,000 employees.

 

The new Apple Circular Headquarters officially named as Apple Campus 2 is proposed to come up at Cupertino and Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs recently presented his proposal for a huge circular ‘spaceship-like’ Office, Research and Development Building over 2.8 million square feet which will house 12,000 people in one building. Apple campus 2 stretching over a 175-acre area has also planned a 1,000 seat Corporate Auditorium, a Corporate Fitness Center and research facilities of 300,000 square feet, and a cafeteria that seats 3,000 people. Apple promises that the new campus will be a “distinctive and inspiring 21st Century workplace.” Apple’s current Infinite Loop headquarters only houses 3,000 employees so that Apple must rent out extra space to temporarily squeeze in 1,300 more employees for the time being.

 

 

 

“Apple Campus 2″ at Cupertino will have space for up to 13,000 employees

 

Thousands of trees were planted both inside and outside

 

The building is made from the world's largest glasses used in construction

The project will be launched next year and completed in 2015

Apple Campus 2 will be the best office building in the world according to Steve Jobs 

The new Apple circular headquarters will have minimal impact on the local power grid due to its own self-contained electrical plant

 

Apple promises that the new beautiful campus will be a “distinctive and inspiring 21st Century workplace”

 

Newest Stunning Images of Apple Campus 2

 

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Ten Top US Colleges 2011 by Forbes

By Henes Pitt

The Forbes’s annual list of ten top US colleges 2011 has been recently released based on some major factors including teaching quality, great career prospects, graduation rates and low levels of debt. Williams College is proudly spotted No. 1 for the second year in a row.

 

Williams College

Established in 1973 in Williamstown, Massachusetts with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, Williams College peaks the list of ten top US colleges 2011 by Forbes for the second year in a row. Its total annual cost per student is $54,921 and its undergraduate population is 2,085.

Williams College was originally a men's college, and then became co-educational in 1970

 

Princeton University

Located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, Princeton University is among nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution, providing graduate and undergraduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering.

Princeton University costs you $52,715 per year and its undergraduate population is 5,113

 

U.S. Military Academy (West Point)

Situated at West Point on scenic high ground overlooking the Hudson River, New York, the United States Military Academy, also known as West Point or Army, is a four-year coeducational federal service academy with its undergraduate population of 4,621.

The entire central campus of the academy is a national landmark and home to some historic sites, buildings and monuments

 

Amherst College

The private liberal arts college is situated in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, providing 35 major programs in an unusually open curriculum. Besides, it is also an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution with the population of 1,744.

Amherst College costs you $54,322 per year

 

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus located near Palo Alto, Californi. It is provided into seven schools including academic schools of Humanities, Sciences and Earth Sciences as well as professional schools of Business, Education, Engineering, Law and Medicine.

Stanford University’s undergraduate population is 6,602 and the total cost per student is $55,918

 

Harvard University

Established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature, Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country. The Harvard University Library is the largest academic library in the United States, and the second largest library in the country.

Harvard University’s undergraduate population is 10,257 and total cost: per year is $53,950

 

Haverford College

Situated in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college, where all students are undergraduates. It is listed No. 9 among national liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report.

Haverford College’s undergraduate population is 1,190

 

University of Chicago

The private research university located in Chicago, Illinois, US, houses the largest university press in this country, University of Chicago Press. It consists of six professional schools and is home to several committees for interdisciplinary scholarship.

University of Chicago has 5,114 undergraduates

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the private research university consists of five schools and one college, with a total of 32 academic departments focusing in scientific and technological education and research.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has 4,232 undergraduates

 

United States Air Force Academy

This accredited college provides officer candidates for the United States Air Force an undergraduate education. Its stated mission is “to educate, train, and inspire men and women to become officers of character, motivated to lead the United States Air Force in service to our nation.”

U.S. Air Force Academy has 4,620 graduates

 

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Articles Source: Ten Top US Colleges 2011 by Forbes