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The newly completed Gallaudet University Sorenson Language and Communication Center was designed by SmithGroupJJR for students, faculty and staff of Gallaudet University, one of the world's leading institutions for the deaf and hard of hearing. Visit smithgroupjjr.com.

RMIT University www.rmit.edu.au has unveiled plans for a landmark 0 million development that is set to transform the northern end of Melbourne's CBD. The 10-storey Swanston academic building will include innovative teaching and learning spaces, outstanding environmental design and a striking façade featuring hundreds of angular shaped sun shades. RMIT Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Margaret Gardner AO, said the building, which will wrap around the historic Oxford Scholar hotel, was the centrepiece of the Universitys 0 million investment into the RMIT Quarter of the CBD. RMIT has a long history of commissioning innovative architecture and this building will not only be an exciting destination for our students and staff but also a spectacular addition to Melbournes urban landscape, Professor Gardner said. This project sets the standard for higher education design, with its state-of-the art learning and teaching spaces equipped to meet the needs of our students and staff now and into the future. Designed by Lyons, the 34350 square metre building is RMITs biggest ever investment in an academic building and will also be the new home for the Universitys College of Business. More info www.rmit.edu.au Keep up to date with RMIT's capital works program: www.youtube.com

Installation of 'Na Fáná Fuachtmhar', a new sculpture by Kevin O'Dwyer, artist in residence at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress at University College Dublin. With an excerpt from UCD Scholarcast. Na Fáná Fuachtmhar was inspired by the incised chevron motifs found inside the Megalithic Passage Tomb at Fourknocks, Co. Meath. The chevron motif, a symbol common to many cultures throughout the world dating from the Neolithic period, is suggestive of the W-shaped constellation, Cassiopeia, which would have been visible through the passage tomb between 3000BC and 2500BC. Na Fáná Fuachtmhar incorporates this ancient symbol into a series of strong architectural forms as a contemporary play on the great standing stones found in Neolithic settlements throughout Europe. The sculpture celebrates the interrelationship between art and archaeology explored during the Sixth World Archaeology Conference at University College Dublin in 2008.

art-history.concordia.ca The Department of Art History offers both MA and PhD graduate programs. The Master of Arts program in Art History focuses on the history and theory of North American art. The MA program was the first in Canada devoted to Canadian art, and it remains the centerpiece of our transcultural, interdisciplinary department. The PhD in Art History is an inter-university program administered jointly by Concordia University, Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal and Université Laval. The PhD program encompasses the full spectrum of historical, modern, and contemporary periods, while also fostering critical and interdisciplinary modes of interpretation. Graduate students in Art History are actively contributing to fields such as the history of photography, feminist traditions of art history, First Nations art history, cross-cultural studies and globalization, material and visual culture, architectural history, craft history, new media studies, museum studies, and historiography of the discipline.

by Foad Shafighi vimeo.com This is the final result(prototypes) of Luminaire Design course 2011 which is part of Architectural Lighting Design and Health Master Program in KTH University. Music: Clocks by Coldplay