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Article: Infusing tradition with high-quality stonework: the designers of the Humanities Building at Rice University used Leuders limestone and Vermont slate to coincide with the traditional campus style, while also adding their own unique touches to the project.
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- Stone World
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Over the years, the integrity of tradition at Rice University in Houston, TX, has influenced architects and designers to keep consistent with the campus's original limestone, clay and brick building facades. It is this principle that inspired the design team at Allan Greenberg, Architect, LLC to model its design of a new three-story Humanities Building after the campus's first structure, Lovett Hall.
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When Edgar Odell Lovett, one of the founders and the first president of the university, was shaping his institution in the first decade of the 20th century, he was working with a $4.6 million endowment from the William Marsh Rice ...