Author Archives: Yanan Wang

Culture | 10:47 am | February 28, 2013 | By Yanan Wang

Yalies named finalists in urban design competition

Five Yale graduate students have created a plan for developing downtown Minneapolis that may win them $50,000. Last Thursday, the Urban Land Institute announced the finalists for its annual ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, which challenged interdisciplinary graduate-level teams to create a long-term plan for downtown Minneapolis that would increase the city’s value. Yale’s entry »

Culture | 3:43 pm | November 25, 2012 | By Yanan Wang

Architecture critic Goldberger ’72 awarded Scully Prize

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On Nov. 15, Yale alumnus Paul Goldberger ’72 was awarded the National Building Museum’s 14th annual Vincent Scully Prize, an honor named after history of art professor Vincent Scully ’40 GRD ’49 — the Sterling Professor who mentored Goldberger while he was an undergraduate at Yale. A Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, Goldberger received his prize »

Culture | 3:53 pm | November 13, 2012 | By Yanan Wang

Architecture School showcases work of undergrads

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The Yale School of Architecture hosted a reception Monday afternoon to showcase the work produced by undergraduates in the architecture major. Roughly 20 prospective students attended the showcase, held on the seventh floor of Rudolph Hall, where the undergraduate studios are housed. The event was designed to inform interested sophomores of the opportunities offered by »

University | 4:34 pm | November 7, 2012 | By Yanan Wang

Univ. inspecting leakage problems in Sterling

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Over fall break, scaffolding went up along the Wall Street side of Sterling Memorial Library as inspectors examined the north nave exterior wall for leakage problems. University spokesman Tom Conroy said in an email that leaks had been occurring above several windows on that side. He added that the facilities staff is in the process »

University | 4:23 pm | November 7, 2012 | By Yanan Wang

YCBA collection now available online

The Yale Center for British Art, located in the middle of campus, is trying to reach out to more undergraduates.

The Yale Center for British Art announced yesterday that the public can now access its entire collection of art online. Home to the most comprehensive array of British art outside of the United Kingdom, the British Art Center carries roughly 2,000 paintings, 200 sculptures and 50,000 prints and drawings from the Elizabethan period onwards. In »