This beautiful square in Birmingham, UK is home to Birmingham University and a number of office spaces.  It is bold but respectful and sets the tone for the arena center!

This project will serve as an energy efficient, single occupancy office building in the middle of London, UK. It represents a colorful break in the monotony of the buildings around it and can serve as a somewhat affordable building for new businesses.

This is the grand hotel for Sydney. Originally built in 1915 and home to government departments, this building is now open to the public for the first time! It features a garden courtyard and is a beautiful escape from he busy city streets!

The link is a brand new pedestrian walkway in Melbourne that connects an upscale shopping mall to an office building tower. This was a mixed-use project that was meant to transform Chadstone which is apparently an extremely large mall in Melbourne. Its designed to accommodate art installations, exhibitions and events!

The Physical Science center at the University of Oklahoma feels how it looks. My toughest classes were taken here and each class day inside the windowless rooms was a stark, boring, and slow suffering experience.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the great reading room. While it is one of my favorite places on campus, it is also where I go to study for my finals if it is available which means a decent amount of stress has happened here. Which also means a lot of good grades were made here too though!

I would hope that this structure has positive meaning to those at this university. To me, I remember the first time every seeing it in person and to this day believe it is once of the greatest college stadiums in the country!

This past summer I studied abroad in Spain and Morocco and was fortunate enough to live in Seville and get to see this marvel of architecture almost every day. Much like the Cathedral in Barcelona that we mentioned in class, I was in awe of the Catedral de Sevilla from the moment I saw it. while Catedral was immens,  measuring roughly 124,000 square feet, it was full of incredible detail that was both artful as well as awe inspiring from an engineering perspective. As I began to learn the winding streets of the thousand year old city of Seville, the Catedral was always my way home as you could see it from almost anywhere in the city even when you may feel utterly lost. The inside the of the Catedral also showcased an unending appearance with massive pillars extending into beautiful stained glass portraits that the sun shone through near the ceiling. In between the ceiling and the floor there were beautiful murals like the one pictured above for places of worship. The Catedral was immense and a giant, but upon entering, I remember the incredibly serene feeling that the architecture generated as everyone was in a state of reverence of the church. The Catedral was quite an unforgettable building and an unforgettable experience!

-Jack Stroup