Tuesday, July 29, 2014

HKUST IAS

I have a new candidate for coolest research institute architecture. HKUST's Institute for Advanced Study is housed in an amazing building with a view of Clearwater Bay in HK. The members of the institute will be mostly theoretical physicists and mathematicians :-)

Stiff competition from Benasque's Center and the Perimeter Institute, however. Also Caltech's IQIM!

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Compare to Dr. No's interrogation chamber :-)

4 comments:

Hamish Johnston said...

You don't get views like that from the PI in Waterloo!

Bob said...

Well, this sure made my University look like a dunghole.
U of T's campus organization and architecture has no redeeming features as far as I know of.

Brian said...

It has one: it emulated LSU's clock tower and quadrangle layout (minus the northern Italian charm, plus a huge dose of giantism), as did Berkeley. I must say, HKUST's transporter facilities are quite fetching.

Hacienda said...

Jutty, brutalitarian, imperial. Yeah. That's the ticket.

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