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Yeah, but it’s finally going to have significant shade, when those trees grow up. A basically tree-less quad (I don’t really count Italian cypress) with sculpted hedges that frequently died, was pretty useless, all those years … like we just wanted some English castle lawn to look at from inside buildings.

Aesthetically, I suppose empty lawns make the architecture of the quad stand out more…but, at ground level, trees and shade versus blinding heat, adds a lot too.

but when it was 70-80 degrees out, yeah, the openness was nice.

 

I'm sorry HP, but that's horrible

 

Haven't been around the "Six Pack" at UT in many years, and now I'm afraid it'll look like that now

 

I think there may have been more stately ways to introduce shade trees, but I'm no landscape architect. Just a disappointed alumnus, LOL.

 

What trees did they plant?

 

There will be flowers, finally . But probably not stately, rather natural gardens.

yeah, I don’t think there is any positive why to explain the asymmetrical paths, other than they are more practical for walking to the physics building and Duncan Hall, I guess. I do like the pagoda area in front of Fondren, that we can’t see in the photo, especially since Fondren has that back-door now leading to the coffee house.

The landscaper architect explains the middle (that replaced Willie) is a meeting place and performance area … big eye-roll on that.

https://arboretum.rice.edu/academic-quad-plant-species

 

We talked to a Hill Country arborist about planting new trees and which ones would be the healthiest and make shade fastest....she just said "live oak"

I was wanting something a bit more interesting, we have live oaks everywhere

 

Change is good overall, and inevitable! I liked having the statue of the school's dead racist founder centered in the quad, but it was time for a change.

we are triple-handedly ruining Unsorted, so I'll leave off on the Rice quad.

 

OpenAI losing 3x what it makes. Will p*rn save it?

 

Today I became aware of the Japanese Raccoon Dog



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_raccoon_dog

...and they're awesome

Also, he was the raccoon character in Nintendo's Mario games

 

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