{"id":968,"date":"2012-05-25T03:34:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T03:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/?p=968"},"modified":"2012-05-25T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T04:13:09","slug":"duncan-hall-at-rice-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/leisure\/duncan-hall-at-rice-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Hall at Rice University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0736-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Colorful interior\" width=\"630\" height=\"945\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0736-Edit.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0736-Edit-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\nRice University&#8217;s buildings are known for utilizing similar red bricks and building proportions. The Duncan Hall is no exception to this. Yet the campus for computational engineering major is one of the most interesting buildings around. Designed by a flamboyant British architect, John Outram, the creative force of this building is focused on the inside of the building. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0733-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"View of inner campus entrance\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0733-Edit.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0733-Edit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0710-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Second floor view\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0710-Edit.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0710-Edit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0722-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The hall\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0722-Edit.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0722-Edit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\nAnyone who enters it for the first time will be surprised by the fantastic interior, as if they are entering a magical space. Who would have thought an engineering building can be so festive and jovial?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0784-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The three-story atrium\" width=\"630\" height=\"945\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0784-Edit.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0784-Edit-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0743-Edit-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Columns topped with skylights\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0743-Edit-2.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0743-Edit-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\nAlso to mention is the strong reference to Egyptian&#8217;s hypostyle hall. Yet the fat columns here are not structural &#8211; they house utility rooms and supports only skylights. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0758.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Looking toward the ceiling\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0758.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0758-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0766-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Student lounge\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0766-Edit.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0766-Edit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\nMaybe this building is more appropriate to house the graphic design or art majors, nonetheless the left-brained students here may be the ones who can benefit the most from some artistic stimuli.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0797-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Stairway to second and third floor\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0797-Edit.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0797-Edit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University&#8217;s buildings are known for utilizing similar red bricks and building proportions. The Duncan Hall is no exception to this. Yet the campus for computational engineering major is one of the most interesting buildings around. Designed by a flamboyant British architect, John Outram, the creative force of this building is focused on the inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Duncan Hall at Rice University - Biei Photography | Google Business View<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/leisure\/duncan-hall-at-rice-university\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/leisure\/duncan-hall-at-rice-university\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/leisure\/duncan-hall-at-rice-university\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/#\/schema\/person\/c362c48cf0dfeb3ef464b98b318181b7\"},\"headline\":\"Duncan Hall at Rice University\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-25T03:34:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-05-25T04:13:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/leisure\/duncan-hall-at-rice-university\/\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/leisure\/duncan-hall-at-rice-university\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_0736-Edit.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Leisure\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/leisure\/duncan-hall-at-rice-university\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/photography\/leisure\/duncan-hall-at-rice-university\/\",\"name\":\"Duncan Hall at Rice University - 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