what you know about atriums?
February 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
what you know about atriums?
in one of my top five favorite atriums
July 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
in one of my top five favorite atriums
i have a disease that can only be cured by big atriums
February 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
i have a disease that can only be cured by big atriums
my love for big gloomy atriums cannot be sated
November 21, 2024 at 3:16 PM
my love for big gloomy atriums cannot be sated
The Potemkin university: Atriums & AI
“Everyone thinks universities have to do what donors want because they pay the bills. But that gets it backward. Giant donations, he’s come to realize, often increase the university’s bills, generating new operating expenses for projects that have only tenuous links to the university’s core mission”
The Misuses of the University - Public Books
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
www.publicbooks.org
February 22, 2026 at 12:35 AM
The Potemkin university: Atriums & AI
Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.
February 21, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.
July 10, 2026 at 10:19 PM
If Phish does the Sphere again, I will demand an Atriums 2 from Trey
August 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If Phish does the Sphere again, I will demand an Atriums 2 from Trey
This probably goes well with Atriums
Something Will Land
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October 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This probably goes well with Atriums
This is François Furstenberg's laughing/crying essay on the absurdities of the present-day research university-- from atriums to AI... and sometimes AI with atriums.
Scroll to the bottom for discussion of AI fostering administrators' fantasies while obliterating the core purposes of higher ed.
Scroll to the bottom for discussion of AI fostering administrators' fantasies while obliterating the core purposes of higher ed.
“The professor thinks about the trustees who approved this ostentatious facility, knowing they’d pass the bills for upkeep to future deans. He’s no fiduciary, but he wonders how responsible that is.”
The Misuses of the University - Public Books
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
www.publicbooks.org
February 20, 2026 at 3:07 AM
This is François Furstenberg's laughing/crying essay on the absurdities of the present-day research university-- from atriums to AI... and sometimes AI with atriums.
Scroll to the bottom for discussion of AI fostering administrators' fantasies while obliterating the core purposes of higher ed.
Scroll to the bottom for discussion of AI fostering administrators' fantasies while obliterating the core purposes of higher ed.
I love atriums
I love a lute in an atrium
I love a lute in an atrium
August 20, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I love atriums
I love a lute in an atrium
I love a lute in an atrium
Get you someone who loves you like universities love new buildings with big atriums
March 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Get you someone who loves you like universities love new buildings with big atriums
Atriums were something brutalism did well
April 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Atriums were something brutalism did well
“My formative years will always be associated with drifting through the atriums of big chain stores that pushed out small, beloved independent businesses. But now I watch in awe as these behemoths meet their own end.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/m...
Dying Shopping Malls Are the Roman Ruins of Our Civilization
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“My formative years will always be associated with drifting through the atriums of big chain stores that pushed out small, beloved independent businesses. But now I watch in awe as these behemoths meet their own end.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/m...
The Wentworth shopping complex Melbourne CBD 1982. Aka Collins Place. Back when atriums and capsule lifts were exciting.
December 11, 2024 at 5:29 AM
The Wentworth shopping complex Melbourne CBD 1982. Aka Collins Place. Back when atriums and capsule lifts were exciting.
I hope Trey recorded Atriums 2: Electric Boogaloo for the sphere ambient lobby music
April 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I hope Trey recorded Atriums 2: Electric Boogaloo for the sphere ambient lobby music
I didn't google atrium, you googled atrium. I know what an atrium is. I'm the king of atriums
March 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
I didn't google atrium, you googled atrium. I know what an atrium is. I'm the king of atriums
Just imagine the atriums!
August 3, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Just imagine the atriums!
Atriums or just stay home
May 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Atriums or just stay home
Spain: weirdly keen on beautiful doors, and moody atriums.
May 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Spain: weirdly keen on beautiful doors, and moody atriums.
we can't have ethnic studies but we can have new, bold centers of patriotic and civic education. we can't have tenure lines, but we can have atriums. this is innovation.
February 27, 2026 at 4:44 PM
we can't have ethnic studies but we can have new, bold centers of patriotic and civic education. we can't have tenure lines, but we can have atriums. this is innovation.
Make it aggressively solar punk, make it unabashedly queer, think about musical instruments around a campfire, think about make shift collaboratives, think about using the glass-roofed atriums of malls as year round greenhouses, consider roaming bands of bycicle repair transexuals.
July 18, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Make it aggressively solar punk, make it unabashedly queer, think about musical instruments around a campfire, think about make shift collaboratives, think about using the glass-roofed atriums of malls as year round greenhouses, consider roaming bands of bycicle repair transexuals.
oh my god i just realized why ul'dah feels so weirdly familiar to me
its hallways with stores and atriums its a fucking mall
its hallways with stores and atriums its a fucking mall
July 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
oh my god i just realized why ul'dah feels so weirdly familiar to me
its hallways with stores and atriums its a fucking mall
its hallways with stores and atriums its a fucking mall
Have they never heard of atriums?
New York has room for improvement (mainly, we could use more atriums to have more locations), but they literally solve all these problems and make money (stores and restaurants)
New York has room for improvement (mainly, we could use more atriums to have more locations), but they literally solve all these problems and make money (stores and restaurants)
February 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Have they never heard of atriums?
New York has room for improvement (mainly, we could use more atriums to have more locations), but they literally solve all these problems and make money (stores and restaurants)
New York has room for improvement (mainly, we could use more atriums to have more locations), but they literally solve all these problems and make money (stores and restaurants)
The Orange Cube in Lyon, designed by Jakob + MacFarlane, is an iconic five-story building characterized by its vibrant orange color and perforated aluminum façade. Its orthogonal cube shape is disrupted by three large conical voids, creating atriums that enhance natural light, ventilation, and views
January 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Orange Cube in Lyon, designed by Jakob + MacFarlane, is an iconic five-story building characterized by its vibrant orange color and perforated aluminum façade. Its orthogonal cube shape is disrupted by three large conical voids, creating atriums that enhance natural light, ventilation, and views