Architectural Accolades: UC Once Again Named Among Elite "Beautiful" Campuses
The University of Cincinnati is
in a just-released listing of the nation's most beautiful campuses. That ranking is out from Travel + Leisure magazine.
Others making this list include Cornell, Duke, Notre Dame, Princeton, Stanford, Vanderbilt and Yale.
Of UC, Travel + Leisure states: A decades-long renewal topping $1 billion is paying dividends for Cincy, which has cultivated a strikingly modern lookand proven that it doesnt need ivy-covered brick walls to be beautiful... . Notable architects Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, Frank Gehry and Peter Eisenman have each made their mark on the campus, whose MainStreet leads to the prow-shaped Steger Student Life Center and the
, which, in 2005, dramatically repositioned the original clock tower atop a skylight in a 90-foot atrium.
This is not the first time UCs architecture has been selected for kudos. Just last month, the high-flying travel, lifestyle and business magazine,
Delta Sky
, came out with a list of the globes top ten college campuses, inspiring for their settings, design or architecture. UC made this top ten list thanks to its new buildings by top architects.
And last year,
Forbes
named UC among the world's most beautiful college campuses.
- SEE what Travel & Leisure wrote about UC's architecture.
- Read more on the Sky Magazine rankings from September 2011.
- Read more on the Forbes ranking of UC as among the world's most beautiful campuses.
- See an image gallery of campus architecture at UC.
- See a listing of UC campus construction and renovation.
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