While backpacking, the Vatican was hands down my favorite place. just being there I felt closer to god. I heard people talk about it but In person it was way better then expected. While walking through the building i was in awe. I do plan on going back at some point and I constantly tell people that it is a must see.
I lived in this house off of Boyd for the first 3 years of my college experience. The first year I even had the opportunity to live with my older brother. Through the course of the years this house had housed many of my friends and hosted countless events. In these covid times, I miss being able to have a bunch of people over. A huge front and back yard were also a big plus. My only qualm about this home was that there was only one bathroom.
AT&T Stadium was a destruction of many of my fondest childhood memories with my family going to a Cowboys game in the old stadium, but also felt like a shift away from the legacy of a team I truly enjoy watching. I vaguely remember the Cowboys of the 1990’s, a team worth watching every Sunday. I remember how excited I used to be to turn on the game. Now, the team has a beautiful new building, but they seem to fumble every opportunity thrown their way. The building is like a gilding of the team, attempting to remind us of the greatness of America’s team, but as you walk in and look what the building contains, you realize it’s mostly hollow. The team isn’t what is portrayed on the outside.
In 2018 when OU faced George in the final four of the college football playoffs I had the privilege of going to the rose bowl. Just looking at the stadium screams tradition. i remember thinking about all the great teams that have played there over the years. The way the cheers from the crowd echoed was breath taking.
One of the benefits to having the new(-ish, at this point) stadium in Dallas is the great press that it often draws. Honestly, Jerry Jones is a master marketer and built a truly incredible product for us to enjoy. The building is beautiful, the opening roof allows nearly ideal weather conditions, and the opulence of the stadium could make any football fan feel as if they were in the Roman Colosseum of old. Wonder and amazement are the feelings the building feels designed to draw out of any passer-by, myself included. Driving down the highway, this piece of architecture is impossible to miss.
My brother took me to a Texas State championship high school football game at the stadium. The immensity of the location and the grandeur slap you in the face like a wet towel as you pull into the parking lot, and then blind you as you walk through the doors and see the giant screen high above a beautiful field of green. It is a strange juxtaposition, watching a sport you love, played by people you are interested about, in a place that symbolizes the immense gap between yourself and the dreams of prosperity you may hold. My first experience was overall pleasant here, but with a taint that will never leave it.
When I first heard of Jerry World being built, I was excited. That excitement quickly grew to dread as I realized what it would mean for myself and the memories I had of the old Texas Stadium, as well as thousands of members of the immediate community to were forced out of their homes to make room for the massive building. AT&T Stadium is emblematic to me of the leverage that wealth and stature can buy you in our country today. It’s a giant symbol standing erect in the DFW Metro of the power the wealthy people hold over the poor masses.
“The 1893 Columbian Exposition held in Chicago was a great disappointment to Louis Sullivan. The opportunity to design an international fair with imagination was passed over in favour of a loose adaptation of Classical architecture. The spectacle of an ensemble of these all-white buildings was an enormous success with the public. The Adler and Sullivan contribution was the Transportation Building, which stood apart and was painted in various strong colours as if in protest. It was a long, low arcaded building with a large polychromed archway entrance (the so-called Golden Door). Not all visitors were impressed by the neo-Roman grandeur of the fair. André Bouilhet, a delegate representing a Parisian decorative-arts union, praised the originality of the Transportation Building. Furthermore, he arranged for a small exhibit in Paris of Sullivan’s work, including a plaster cast of the Golden Door and some photographs of his taller buildings.”
“Back in Chicago in June 1875, Sullivan worked briefly as a draftsman for a number of firms. One such job was for the recently formed firm of Johnston and Edelmann. It was John Edelmann who made the momentous introduction of Sullivan to his future partner, Dankmar Adler. In 1879 Sullivan joined Adler’s office and in May 1881, at the age of 24, became a partner in the firm of Adler and Sullivan, Architects. Their 14-year association produced more than 100 buildings, many of them landmarks in the history of American architecture.”
This is where I went to high school for 4 years. It was a great building for education and socializing with my peers. I have many fond memories of classes and extracurricular activities.
As a public school, the main goal of the building was not aesthetics but cost-effectiveness and utility. I did not like the design and there were not many windows. This helped the building act as a tornado shelter.
This was a proficient building for housing 2000 students, and I’m appreciative of my time there. In the future, I would not want to live or work in a place with similar architectural features. The lack of windows serve a purpose but decrease the enjoyment of being inside.
