Rudolph's Frog. Lindemann Building northern facade.
Architect Paul Rudolph's Government Service Center consists of two separate, but connected buildings: the Hurley Building and the Lindemann Mental Health Center. It's the most misunderstood building in Boston. Many consider it (wrongly, IMHO) to be the ugliest building in Boston. However, brutism is resurgent; interest among architects and architectural historians or enthusiasts has been picking up and gaining speed in recent years, and even popular sentiment has softened, at least to some extent. See this NY Times piece, Brutalism is Back, and Why Boston’s Brutalism Is Back in a Big Way from Boston Magazine.
One of Rudolph's masterpieces, Boston's Government Services Center ranks high among the best examples of Brutalist architecture in the United States (perhaps even eclipsing Boston City Hall). Designed and constructed after Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building tour de force, the Hurley/Lindermann building was never completed according to Rudolph's original design and vision. Construction of this high rise portion was never realized.
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Ring around the galaxy… Here’s Webb’s stunning new mid-infrared image of M104.
This bright core of the galaxy is dim in this view (the first slide), revealing a smooth inner disk as well as details of how the clumpy gas in the outer ring is distributed. Dust is one of the universe’s essential building blocks, and often where star formation is found in galaxies. Though this particular galaxy is not a particular hotbed of star formation, it does contain lots of stars for scientists to study, especially tight groupings called globular clusters.
Also known as the Sombrero galaxy, M104 looks a bit more hat-like in Hubble’s visible-light image, which showcases its prominent glowing core. (link to Hubble image)
Read more: go.nasa.gov/4eQ4key
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Image description: Image of a galaxy on the black background of space. The galaxy is a very oblong, blue disk that extends from left to right at an angle (from about 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock). The galaxy has a small bright core at the center. There is an inner disk that is clearer, with speckles of stars scattered throughout. The outer disk of the galaxy is whiteish-blue, and clumpy, like clouds in the sky. There are different colored dots, distant galaxies, speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy.
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The sky was full of robots...
with a Westworld meets Back to the Future vibes below.
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at the unveiling at Warner Brothers last night
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Even the graffiti at Starbase is aspirational
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