College campus: the unique, different, distinctive, original (WVU, schools, graduated)
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Unlike, say, JHU or UVA, no two buildings look alike. Add in the woods on the west side of campus, the huge oaks on the main green, and the various and exotic plants all over the campus, and it's hard to beat.
The University of Iowa looks like every other big midwestern university. Not very distinctive.
At the other extreme are the small colleges, such as Mount Holyoke, in South Hadley, Mass. It has won awards for having the most beautiful campus many times. 800 acres and it's simply gorgeous.
Kenyon is uniwue, and beautiful. The fact that the small school itself surrounds the microscopic town of Gambier makes it unique. It truly feels like something out of Camelot.
Would argue Stanford campus is unique on several levels
Effectively a massive, scenic park that's epicenter of one of world's two most economically powerful urban/suburban regions (only direct rival is MidtownManhattan/Greenwich)
Intellectual birthplace of SiliconValley...astonishing when one considers that Google co-founders were mere grad students on campus ~10yrs ago
Up on SandHill Rd, have most of world's major VC firms in modest suburban office bldgs, staffed by centimillionaire/billionaire guys, many of whom are Stanford alums.....who've seeded many of the legendary cos. that have put SiliconValley on map.....Apple, Oracle, Intel, Google, Cisco, etc etc
Next to Stanford are the suburbs (Woodside, Atherton, PaloAlto) where most of titans of SV reside, again many of whom are Stanford alums
And up in mtns above Stanford are some of world's best mtn driving rds for perf car nuts....will often run across many SV titans exercising their latest new perf cars on wkend AMs up in mtns...again lots of Stanford alums
Don't know of a college anywhere with as much economic impact upon its region (or rest of US and RoW for that matter)...and so many successful alums who choose to live/work/play in immediate suburbs of a legendary engineering school
The University of Iowa looks like every other big midwestern university. Not very distinctive.
A river runs smack through its middle, bluffed on both sides. on the east side stands the old capitol of the state of Iowa on streets gridded for government and city, not university. across the river, streets rise and curve over hills. River and hills make Iowa City an amphitheare with UI its core. the campus, though connected, falls into an incredible number of subregions, each with its own personality given not only by design but by the different but beautiful topography. City and campus intermingle in delightful ways, blurring the lines of distinction of one from the other. The campus occupies the heart of Iowa City and you go through the campus, not around it, when traveling....and yet the campus does not suffer from that connectiveness. Crossing the Iowa River heading towards Old Capitol is as distinct a college image as I can envision.
A river runs smack through its middle, bluffed on both sides. on the east side stands the old capitol of the state of Iowa on streets gridded for government and city, not university. across the river, streets rise and curve over hills. River and hills make Iowa City an amphitheare with UI its core. the campus, though connected, falls into an incredible number of subregions, each with its own personality given not only by design but by the different but beautiful topography. City and campus intermingle in delightful ways, blurring the lines of distinction of one from the other. The campus occupies the heart of Iowa City and you go through the campus, not around it, when traveling....and yet the campus does not suffer from that connectiveness. Crossing the Iowa River heading towards Old Capitol is as distinct a college image as I can envision.
Not very distinctive? Try totally distinctive.
Yup. And a river goes right through Mount Holyoke's campus, too. Complete with two sets of waterfalls. Iowa is a big yawn. But it's differences of opinion that make the world go 'round.
Pepperdine, on a hill overlooking Malibu and the Pacific:
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