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We just spotted John Legend on the steps of the Architecture building, dressed in black, posing for a photo with a huge group of students. We hear he’s on campus for AAS 348/ENG 348: Black Popular Music Culture.

After the “Ordinary People” crooner signed autographs and took photos, he disappeared toward Frist, leaving behind him a trail of awestruck Princeton students. “John! John!” they yelled as he retreated, signing course packets all the way. We saw one sophomore shake his head slowly, a smile of disbelief on his face, as he walked to class.

No, really.

UPDATE: Some more details from his visit after the jump, courtesy of a student in the class.  Turns out he’s been working with this weekend’s USG Lawnparties band, The Roots:

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Apr 27, 2010

Spotted: John Legend

By Angela Wu
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Sejima and Nishizawa, feeling the excitement!

Sejima and Nishizawa, feeling the excitement!

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa will be the next recipients of the prestigious Pritzker Prize (pretty much the Nobel Prize of architecture). The pair currently work for the Japanese firm SANAA but used to lecture at Princeton, so we’re still counting this as a victory for Old Nassau. Full story here.

(image courtesy of SANAA)

Mar 29, 2010

Two Former Princeton Architecture Professors Win Pritzker Prize

By Spencer Gaffney
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page1Way over on east campus, basically on Route 1, Princeton is putting the finishing touches on The. Biggest. Campus. Building. Ever. The 265,000 square foot steel and glass giant will be the new home for the university’s chemistry department.  Last friday, Senior Project Manager James Wallace estimated that the chemistry facility is about 80 percent complete.

Slated to open next fall, the new alchemy abode is the latest addition to Princeton’s new “Natural Sciences Neighborhood.” Quiet, with an ultra-low crime rate, this new hamlet is home to the Biology, Geosciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Astrophysics departments.  These departments will soon be joined by Chemistry, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Too much fun for main campus, Princeton has moved the neighborhood totally off campus and across Washington Street.  But, don’t worry! They’re going to be connected by this sick bridge.

What have London-based Hopkins Architects stuffed inside these humongous headquarters?  A description of facilities that would make Marie Curie tear up– after the jump:

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Feb 21, 2010

It’s a Beautiful day in the (Science) Neighborhood

By Ellen Shakespear
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There’s nothing like coming back to Princeton: a fresh blanket of snow on ivy gates, final exams, and roaring fireplaces.

But for some, homecoming looks more like this.

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Sadness

This is the wall behind my bed in the Forbes Addition.  Home, sweet home. It turns out no amount of sticky tack can actually cling to cinder block walls.  So, cool White Album poster.

But at least the Forbes Addition provides architecture grad students with a first project.  Every September, armed with T-squares, first year students in the graduate program hunch over their desks (in the equally miserable architecture building) and redesign the Forbes Addition

Here are some of their design ideas (click on the pictures for full sized images):

Christine Chang

Christine Chang (above)

Kuan Tsu

Kuan Tsu (above)

More photos and thoughts from the designers after the jump….

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Jan 5, 2010

Extreme Makeover: Forbes Edition

By Ellen Shakespear
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feinbergThe couple who brought you Wilson College’s Feinberg Hall (1986) has been hired by the university to design the building for the newAndlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

The firm, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, is most famous for designing the American Folk Art Museum in New York.

(image source: princeton.edu)

Feb 15, 2009

Feinberg Hall Architect to Design New Campus Building

By Brian No
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