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Tops in design: universities win architecture award.


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FACILITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO and the University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati is a coeducational public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ranked as one of America’s top 25 public research universities and in the top 50 of all American research universities,[2]  were recently honored for design excellence by the American Institute of Architects' Chicago chapter in its 53rd annual competition. Forty-two winners were selected from 379 entries representing projects in various industries. Cincinnati's George & Helen Smith Helen Smith may refer to:
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 Athletics Museum was recognized for its "Celebration Walk" design concept, expressing the "duality Duality (physics)

The state of having two natures, which is often applied in physics. The classic example is wave-particle duality. The elementary constituents of nature—electrons, quarks, photons, gravitons, and so on—behave in some respects
 and tension between athletics and academics," with the space organized into a red and black scheme throughout all five stories of an atrium atrium (ā`trēəm), term for an interior court in Roman domestic architecture and also for a type of entrance court in early Christian churches. The Roman atrium was an unroofed or partially roofed area with rooms opening from it. . The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business's Winter Garden, a grass atrium around which the building is organized, features a vault roof with four main structural columns that flare outward as they rise, resembling tree branches that shade the space.

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Title Annotation:BEHIND the NEWS
Author:Ezarik, Melissa
Publication:University Business
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Date:Dec 1, 2008
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