Comments on: New Rice Palace of Sweat http://swamplot.com/new-rice-palace-of-sweat/2008-04-18/ Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:38:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Grant http://swamplot.com/new-rice-palace-of-sweat/2008-04-18/#comment-652 Grant Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:35:18 +0000 http://swamplot.com/new-rice-palace-of-sweat/2008-04-18/#comment-652 This looks amazing; wish I could be around to see it finished. Hopefully it will be finished in time for the enrollment surge that will occur after the two new residental colleges on campus are completed. This looks amazing; wish I could be around to see it finished. Hopefully it will be finished in time for the enrollment surge that will occur after the two new residental colleges on campus are completed.

]]> By: K http://swamplot.com/new-rice-palace-of-sweat/2008-04-18/#comment-586 K Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:49:15 +0000 http://swamplot.com/new-rice-palace-of-sweat/2008-04-18/#comment-586 "...do what schools like Yale do and put the playing fields in distant locations completely separate from the campus." Heh. That's exactly what my alma mater did, and then had the cluelessness to complain that the student body never attended any of the athletics events. We were, however, the first university in Texas to build a massive "rec center" complete with three-story high, freestanding rock wall on campus, so...yeah. I really hope we're not setting trends in the off-campus athletic facilities area, too. “…do what schools like Yale do and put the playing fields in distant locations completely separate from the campus.”

Heh. That’s exactly what my alma mater did, and then had the cluelessness to complain that the student body never attended any of the athletics events.

We were, however, the first university in Texas to build a massive “rec center” complete with three-story high, freestanding rock wall on campus, so…yeah. I really hope we’re not setting trends in the off-campus athletic facilities area, too.

]]> By: RWB http://swamplot.com/new-rice-palace-of-sweat/2008-04-18/#comment-584 RWB Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:34:05 +0000 http://swamplot.com/new-rice-palace-of-sweat/2008-04-18/#comment-584 As an alum and a soon to be MBA, I seriously hope they don't plant freaking palm trees in the courtyard of this thing. At this rate, Rice will have no intramural fields or open spaces at all, except for tightly regimented quads. Then they'll have to tear down the stadium--or else do what schools like Yale do and put the playing fields in distant locations completely separate from the campus. As an alum and a soon to be MBA, I seriously hope they don’t plant freaking palm trees in the courtyard of this thing.

At this rate, Rice will have no intramural fields or open spaces at all, except for tightly regimented quads. Then they’ll have to tear down the stadium–or else do what schools like Yale do and put the playing fields in distant locations completely separate from the campus.

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