Kira and I did something unique: we asked for a Green Tour of Princeton, something not really offered unless you request it. The main tour of Princeton we attended yesterday took us around the main historical parts, and later the Engineering Tour took us around the Engineering Quad (without really addressing where Bio-Chem Engineering classes take place). Today, the sustainability tour showed us everything you really want to see about an innovative college campus: building tops planted with green matter, solar paneled fields, bridges designed and built with data points for projection of material strength, glass buildings that collect rainwater for the toilets, metrics allowing you to see the up to minute energy use on campus by building, water channels built by students and professors (and monitored together), bike sharing, car sharing, carpooling for professors, new dorms with panels that move with the sun AND project DNA patterns (shadows) as an added aesthetic. Yes, this was the tour to have. And it gave Kira a unique opportunity for a one on one visit with a current student.
This building would make anyone love Chemistry. State of the art labs on left, hangouts on right on each level, a mock European street scene below. It was completely skipped as part of the Chem Engineering tour, so it made Kira really smile when we got here.
I'm sitting in Newark Airport, flights delayed, will arrive late to next stop: St. Louis. Wash U. is next. And a 365 meetup with Rosie!
This tour sounds amazing and your photo of it is so fascinating. Jealous of your meet up with Rosie. I should have researched better before I briefly stopped there a week ago!
That's an intriguing tour -- and this building is quite fantastic as an architectural example. What a range of schools and atmospheres you've seen and conveyed in your images. Has Kira shown any preferences yet? Have fun in St L!
