2008/10/20

Foundations

Welcome to Grounds For Construction, a blog which hopes to explain all the detour signs, orange mesh, jackhammers, and cranes dotting the skyline around the University of Virginia.

Here's a great photo to get started with. It's an aerial view of the South Lawn Project, taken by Dan Grogan on October 4 and published in UVA's Week in Photos. You can view the original image here.


Photo by Dan Grogan for UVA, 2008.10.04

For those unfamiliar with this project,
here's some background information. This will be the new campus-- er, Grounds-- for the College of Arts and Sciences. If you have not been to Grounds in a while, you may remember this area as the JPA parking lot. The layout of the buildings is supposed to be reminiscent of the Lawn. It doesn't take much imagination to see the circle at the left as the Rotunda, and the six parallel rooftops as the Pavilions. The "South Lawn" is oriented perpendicularly to the original Lawn, across the pedestrian bridge and on the other side of New and Old Cabell Halls.

Speaking of the Cabells, when are THEY going to be renovated? That's a good topic for a later post. Stay tuned!

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