Achieving Art On Campus While Going Green

Perhaps the first significant wind installation on an American college campus, Quinnipiac’s “wind garden” is free of propellers and their objectionable whoosh. Each of its 25 upright cylindrical turbines is encircled by a vertically aligned apparatus that spins slowly and in virtual silence. The futuristic display is the most prominent feature on the partially completed campus, a symbol of the green ethic guiding the campus design, said John L. Lahey, Quinnipiac’s president. “It’s the tallest thing on that campus,” he said, “and I think it makes an enormous and positive statement. I hope people will see these as aesthetically pleasing, and it may very well encourage more projects of this kind.” Read more at:
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