Peninsula Tug Boat Arrival
July 7th, 2018 - Footage from the return of the Peninsula Tug Boat to the former Pulp Mill in Marathon, ON.
WVMRRC's Large, Nicely Detailed, HO Scale Layout!
The Wisconsin Valley Model Railroad Club operates a nicely detailed double-deck HO Layout, based on the Milwaukee Road Wisconsin Valley Independent Division in the early 1950's. The layout is located in the basement of The Marathon County Historical Society's Yawkey House museum located at 403 McIndoe Street, Wausau, WI.
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Kaabong Marathon 2018
Maratona a Kaabong, Karamoja - Uganda.
Obesity : The Post Mortem
Obese Autopsy : The Post Mortem
Autopsy of a 56 year-old obese woman was suffering from Heart failure due to excess fat intake which cause heart diseases to her followed by Death.
Documentary revealing just how dangerous too much fat is to our most vital internal organs. The programme follows a specialist pathology team as they conduct a post-mortem on the body of a 17-stone woman whose body was donated to medical science. Their findings, as they dissect the body and its organs, are startling, exposing the devastating impact of obesity with stunning visuals and fascinating medical facts.
Morbid obesity reduces life expectancy by an average of nine years and is blamed for over 30,000 deaths in the UK every year. With 65 per cent of people already overweight or obese, this extraordinary film is a powerful contribution to the debate about fat, food, lifestyle and how the health service will cope with the growing obesity crisis.
It's only for Medical Education ..
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Doctor Mike Osborne
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Museum Boom in China: Session Two
Friday, October 14, 2016
Session Two: Global Cultural Context
A panel discussion on the theme of situating the museum building boom in China within a global context.
Speakers:
Alexandra Munroe, Guggenheim Museum
Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Ou Ning, Columbia GSAPP
Mark Wasiuta, Columbia GSAPP
Moderated by Jean DeBevoise, Asia Art Archive and John Rajchman, Art History, Columbia University
Concurrent with China’s rapid urbanization, and as part of its soft power initiative, is a museum building boom, which has produced an average of approximately 100 new museums a year across the country over the past few years. Astonishingly, during some of those years over 400 museums were built. These iconic structure–landmarks for newly planned government and civic centers, central business districts, cultural districts, and in some cases, residential and commercial developments–symbolize the importance of culture in the identity of a new China.
With ambitions to hastily increase museum per capita numbers to international standards, challenges persist in filling the abundant spaces with content. How many museums does China need? Can the museum in China redefine its role in society, whether socially, politically or culturally? And, what new architectural forms and spatial organizations are being invented to accommodate these new possibilities?
In addition to addressing some of the above questions regarding the museum boom in China, the forum will also situate the building boom within a global context. How have global influences and pressures influenced the proliferation of new museums in China? How can we compare the enormous investment in cultural capital in China with other international examples? How has what has been happening in China influenced museums globally?
Co-Organized by Columbia GSAPP, Jeffrey Johnson, and John Rajchman.
Supported in part by Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Yes, race walking is an Olympic sport. Here’s how it works.
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Explore Fort Street Area | Heart of the City
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Kevin Murphy (International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame) with Steven Munatones
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About Kevin Murphy
The scale that marathon swimming champion Kevin Murphy uses is like few others, and he is the quintessential master of the understatement.
But Open Water Source will not permit his achievements to be understated in this interview, because he is truly a master of marathon swimming.
In fact, Kevin Murphy has subjected himself to swims so long and so cold that few can fathom his feats:
52 hours in the English Channel...
3 times across the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland...
34 times between England and France...
and 50 years of marathon swimming experience in multitudes of waterways around the world.
Going for a little dip...
It sounds so innocent and playful, doesn't it?
But nothing that Kevin Murphy does is easy.
On land, he is an accomplished journalist who covers many of the world's tragedies and wars. He places himself in harm's way and yet he somehow lives to tell stories for another day.
Similarly, he can tell stories of his accomplishments in the water for hours on end. Engaging stories. True stories. Incredible stories of courage. Honestly told. Told from the heart. The heart of a champion.
Your host for this exclusive presentation is Steven Munatones, an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Inductee. He has prepared open water swimming materials used by NBC, USA Swimming, the Beijing Olympic Committee, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Public Radio and National Geographic Magazine.
And now... Open Water Source is pleased to present your host, Steven Munatones, who takes us across time zones Kevin Murphy, the little dipper marathon swimming.
About Steven Munatones
Steven Munatones has served as the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Team coach at the 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 World Swimming Championships and 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 national team camps.
He has written several cover stories for Swimming World Magazine, U.S. Masters Swimming SWIMMER Magazine and Competitor Magazine. He is an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee and board member. He created and manages the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame website. He is a member of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Committee where he drafted many of the rules, guidelines, protocols and regulations currently used in the sport. He was the 1982 World Long Distance Swimming Champion (25K in Lake Windermere, England), did five unprecedented solo swims over 30K in Asia and several professional marathon swims in Canada, Mexico and Atlantic City. He was the NBC Olympics' Commentator for the 2008 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Beijing. He created the Open Water Swimming Dictionary, World's Top 100 Open Water Swims, America's Top 50 Open Water Swims, the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, the World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, Open Water Wednesday, the Pyramid of Open Water Success, Ocean's Seven and the Open Water Almanac.
He has prepared open water swimming materials used by NBC, USA Swimming, Beijing Olympic Committee, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Public Radio and National Geographic Magazine. He serves as the Technical Delegate for the Special Olympics and 2011 World Games and as an adviser to race directors in the USA, from California to New York, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Greece, Mexico and Japan. He is a member of the board of directors of Swim Free and was the race director for the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships, the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10K and the Distance Swim Challenge. He wrote the script for Out of the Box, USA Swimming's 90-minute educational DVD on open water swimming and The Tactics and Techniques of Open Water Swimmers. He has kayaked, paddled, escorted and coached several swimmers in numerous channels and lakes around the world including the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Japan, South Pacific and the Hawaiian Islands. He created The Daily News of Open Water Swimming, the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame website, 10Kswim, Virtual Swim, Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, Water Polo Hair and SwiMetrics. He created and hosted the first Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is a contributing writer to The Science of Swimming and is an adviser to the American Swimming Coaches Association's Journal of Swimming Research. He wrote Open Water Swimming, a comprehensive tome on open water swimming that will be published in 2011 by Human Kinetics. He received the Irving Davids / Captain Roger Wheeler Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame. He was born and raised in Southern California and currently resides in Huntington Beach, California where he coaches, researches, writes and promotes open water swimming and water polo.
Exploring LONDON, ONTARIO! - Strawberry In Canada
Been a long time in the making / uploading, this one! That's because I've been busy doing the whole getting a place to live thing, but pleased to say that I have now sorted that and found the time to edit my footage from Friday! So, in this video our intrepid explorer:
- Giggles at the other London's place names
- Takes a pleasant stroll in the park
- Spots his first Farhi building. Then another. Then another.
- Goes to the museum... almost
- Checks out downtown
- Wanders down the river and is accosted by geese
- Battles to get his head around the local buses
- Unintentionally games the system
- Waits in a casino for ribs that never arrive
- Gets to watch Ice Hockey instead
From here, my videos are gonna be more off-the-cuff and sporadic, because honestly, I'm here to enjoy myself and the editing of these 20 minute marathons is taking too long. But keep your eyes peeled for more content!
London is great! :D
Explore Federal Street | Heart of the City
Quebec City - Ville de Quebec - Old Quebec Tour From My Car - Full HD
Québec)[10][11][11] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. The city had a population estimate of 531,902 on July 2016, ( Increase of 3.0% from 2011 to 2016 )[12] and the metropolitan area had a population of 800,296 on July 2016, ( Increase of 4.3% from 2011 to 2016 )[13] making it Canada's seventh-largest metropolitan area and Quebec's second-largest city after Montreal.
The narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River proximate to the city's promontory, Cap-Diamant (Cape Diamond), and Lévis, on the opposite bank, provided the name given to the city, Kébec, an Algonquin word meaning where the river narrows. Founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, Quebec City is one of the oldest cities in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico, and were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the 'Historic District of Old Québec'.[14][15]
The city's landmarks include the Château Frontenac, a hotel which dominates the skyline, and La Citadelle, an intact fortress that forms the centrepiece of the ramparts surrounding the old city. The National Assembly of Quebec (provincial legislature), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec), and the Musée de la civilisation (Museum of Civilization) are found within or near Vieux-Québec.
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Quesnel Women’s Fall Challenge
The Quesnel Women’s Fall Challenge is in its 22nd year. This is a fitness challenge – a 5KM walk, a 10KM walk or run or a 21KM half marathon. It’s for women to come out and have fun on a Sunday morning. All funds raised from the event stay in Quesnel. The group’s long term goal is to buy a digital mammography unit for the GR Baker Hospital in Quesnel.
Rapid Transit - 1964
Rapid transit - a vital link in a balanced transportation system
A short documentary about the advantages of rapid transit for urban transportation. Includes descriptions of the forthcoming Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system for San Francisco.
ROUTE 66 | Entire 2448 miles aerial view | 186 points of attraction
U.S. Route 66 or US 66 or Route 66 or Historic Route 66 or Will Rogers Highway or The Main Street of America or The Mother Road.
2448 Miles from Chicago to Santa Monica. Across 8 states. Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, California
Points of Interest in the video
1 U.S. Route 66 Eastern Terminus
2 Historic Route 66 Begin Sign
3 Willis Tower
4 Gardner, IL
5 100 Year Old Station
6 Wind Mill Building
7 Old Texaco Station
8 Standard Oil Station
9 Hole In The Wall - Old Sped Trap Hideout
10 Meramec Cavern Sign On Barn
11 Old Bridge With Hwy 4 Stencil
12 66 Hall Of Fame
13 Old Highway Patrol HQ - Shaped Like Pistol
14 Poor Farm Cemetery
15 Chenoa, IL
16 Lexington, IL
17 Towanda, IL
18 Funk's Grove Maple Sirup
19 Paul Bunyan Statue
20 Salt Creek Ghost Bridge
21 Williamsville, IL
22 Sherman, IL
23 Lincoln Tomb Pics
24 Lincoln Home
25 Lake Covered RT 66
26 Abandoned 4 Lane RT 66
27 Litchfield, IL
28 Soulsby's Texaco
29 Staunton, IL
30 Gateway Arch
31 Meramac River Bridge - State Park Office
32 Times Beach
33 Old Bridge Remains
34 Red Cedar Inn
35 Jensen's Point
36 Diamonds Sign
37 Diamonds Restaurant
38 Wagon Wheel Motel
39 Phllips 66 Station
40 Huge Rocking Chair
41 A&W Burger Family
42 Totem Pole Trading Post
43 Johns Modern Cabins
44 Devil's Elbow Bridge
45 Frog Rock
46 Gasconade Truss Bridge
47 Munger Moss Motel - Neon
48 Abandoned Motel
49 Drive In
50 Remains Of Casket Factory
51 Gary Turner's Sinclair Station
52 1923 Truss Bridge
53 Flying W Craaap Duster
54 Missing Bridge
55 66 Drive-In
56 Welcome Center Old Rock Filling Station
57 Candy Factory Rt 66 Chocolates
58 Galena - Home Of Tow Mater
59 Rainbow Arch Bridge
60 Coleman Theatre
61 Vintage Iron Motorcycle Museum
62 Sidewalk Highway
63 Horse Creek Bridge '29
64 Vinita, OK
65 Chelsea, OK
66 Andy Payne Park And Statue
67 JM Davis Museum
68 Catoosa Twin Bridges
69 1913 Bridge
70 Cyrus Avery Plaza
71 Rt 66 Park - Steam Engine
72 Steel Bridge - Ozark Trail '21
73 Bridge Remains With Waterfall
74 Old Metal Bridge (Closed)
75 Water Tower & Caboose
76 1914 Bridge - Dirt Road On '26 Alignment
77 Old Train Near Stroud
78 Old Bridge
79 Rare Ozark Trail Marker
80 Old Phillips Gas Station
81 Merramac Cavern Sign On Bldg
82 Old Gas Station
83 House Built Like Phillips 66 Station
84 Round Barn
85 State Capitol
86 Gold Dome Building
87 Milk Bottle Building
88 Bethany Murals
89 Overholser Bridge
90 Yukon Mill Animated Sign
91 Chisolm Trail Crossed About Here
92 A26 Attack Aircraft
93 Canadian County Historical Museum
94 Fort Reno - Cavalry Post
95 Pony Bridge
96 Bridgeport - Mostly Deserted
97 Lucille's Gas & Motel
98 Rt 66 Museum - Clinton
99 Sandhill Curosity Shop
100 Restored Conoco - Neon
101 Barbed Wire And RT 66 Museum
102 Rockledge - Abandoned
103 Texas Rest Stop
104 Jerico Station
105 Leaning Water Tower
106 Bug Ranch
107 San Jacinto District
108 Cadillac Ranch
109 Farm & Ranch Museum
110 Dot's Mini Museum
111 Midpoint Cafe
112 Glenrio
113 Bridgeposts And Roadbed To South
114 Abandoned RR Tunnel
115 Tee Pi Curios
116 Missing Bridge
117 5 Mile Park
118 Cuervo
119 Car Museum
120 Blue Hole
121 1907 Chapel Ruins
122 Longhorn Ranch
123 Whiting Bros Station
124 Paul Bunyan
125 Aztec Motel - Torn Down
126 Point 253
127 Rio Puerco Bridge
128 Abandoned Section - Bridges And Buildings
129 St Joseph Church 1699
130 Budville
131 Whiting Bros Gas
132 Santa Maria De Acoma
133 Bridge With Wood Planks
134 Continental Divide
135 Whiting Bros Sign
136 Bridge Remains
137 El Rancho Motel
138 Truck Check In - Pre 66
139 Lupton - Indian Market
140 Fort Courage
141 Querino Canyon Bridge
142 Painted Desert Trading Post
143 Painted Desert Visitor Center
144 Painted Desert Indian Center
145 Wig Wam Motel
146 Jack Rabbit Trading Post
147 La Posada
148 Meteor Crater Trading Post
149 Twin Arrows
150 Train Station
151 Richfield Gas Station
152 Highest Point On 66 - 7400 Ft
153 Waggon Wheel Inn
154 Ash Fork 66 Museum
155 Bridge With Tree Growing Out Of It
156 Old Concrete Bridge Over Tracks
157 Delgadillo Snow Cap
158 Rusty Bolt Curios
159 Hackberry Store
160 El Trovatore
161 Powerhouse Visitor Center
162 Steam Locomotive
163 Memorial To Crashes
164 Oatman
165 Old 66 Steel Bridge
166 Essex
167 Graffiti On Dirt Berm In Rocks & Glass
168 Graffiti Buildings
169 Chambless
170 Roy's In Amboy
171 66 Mural
172 Harvey House And Museum
173 Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch
174 Roy Rogers Ranch
175 Ore Grande Bridge - Trapezoid
176 Rt 66 Museum
177 Summit Inn
178 1st McDonalds
179 Wigwam Motel
180 Rialto Theater
181 Lummis House
182 1931 Bridge
183 Bridge Over LA River - Ornate
184 Original End Of Rt 66
185 U.S. Route 66 Western Terminus
186 Route 66 End Of The Trail
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Roadtrip USA/CANADA #4 -- New York, New York! -- Big Apple!
Roadtrip Canada, United States
We arriveren in New York, the city that never sleeps!
Toch wel een hoogtepunt van onze reis.
We dumpen onze auto & spullen in ons hotel in New Jersey en nemen de bus naar Manhatten.
Het is al later op de middag en we gaan op pad naar Ground Zero.
Helaas kunnen we niet meer het museum in, dus bezoeken we de monumenten.
Hierna lopen we naar de Brooklynn Bridge, en lopen we er een stuk overheen.
Om nog wat van de zonsondergang mee te nemen gaan we terug naar de Freedom Tower, om One World Observatory te bezoeken, prachtig!!
Hierna lopen we via Chinatown & Little Italy naar Times Square, wat een beleving.. moe en voldaan van onze eerste dag in New York gaan we lekker slapen..
Om de volgende dag natuurlijk weer op pad te gaan naar 'The Big Apple' .
Een boottocht naar Liberty Island om The Statue te bezoeken.
We varen langs Ellis Island weer terug naar Manhatten.
Vanuit hier lopen we door naar Financial district.
Like & abboneer voor nog veel meer vakantie avonturen!
RVing to Alaska: Clinton to Quesnel, BC ????????Road Blocks Ahead - Part 1
Day 3 of RVing to Alaska and we work our way up the Cariboo Highway towards Quesnel, British Columbia and another free BC Recreation campsite we found on Campendium. It was a gamble to go for this free camping location as it is located 24 miles off pavement up a mountain logging road and 2 miles to our destination we hit a major road block and our first break down of this adventure. This is part one of a two part episode. (Season 4 - Episode 13)
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Church of Scientology Budapest, Hungary Tour
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Budapest’s Ideal Scientology Church opened July 23, 2016, to mark a milestone for spiritual freedom in Hungary.
Already there are epic tales about Scientology in Hungary—a country that for centuries has cherished its myths and histories. In the last days of the 1980s and the dawning of the 1990s, totalitarian, atheistic Communism receded from Eastern Europe, much of Asia and Russia. Long starved for spirituality, Hungarians—like all people who had suffered under the Soviet commissars—quickly sought truth and religion. In 1988, a single copy of L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health pierced the iron curtain and a movement was born.
Now, some 25 years after first planting the Scientology banner in Budapest, the religion opened an Ideal Church of Scientology Organization, in the historic city. The Budapest Ideal Org is the 52nd Ideal Org that has opened since 2003, and with an accelerating pace of inaugurations, another 50 are already in the making.
“It is said the whole world knows your city as a capital of freedom,” said Scientology’s ecclesiastical leader, David Miscavige, in an address to some 3,500 Scientologists and friends at the July 23 opening of the Budapest Ideal Church. “Your fight to be free translates into every known language on Earth. It is also said that whenever people yearn for liberty, they become ‘citizens of Hungary.’”
As a country more or less situated in the middle of everywhere, Hungary has had its share of visitors. Nomads from the east a thousand years ago founded a kingdom and crowned King Stephen I. Then came Mongols and Ottomans, the Hapsburg Austrians, Germans and Russians. There have been wars and great upheavals, tremendous cultural surges and marvelous music, and don’t forget the cuisine. Even spicing history up in the 15th Century, a gent named Vlad (AKA Dracula) was sharpening his canines in the Transylvanian corner of Hungary.
So, as eddies and floods of civilization washed across Hungary, a great city was built on the hilly west side of the Danube, Buda. A slightly younger civic sibling, Pest, arose on plains on the east side of the great river. Budapest today is the cultural, political, and commercial hub of Hungary, and one of the great metropolises of Central and East Europe. Full of great, historic landmarks—Buda Castle, the Fisherman’s Bastion, the Chain Bridge, and so many more—a new emblem of liberty has been added to the city, the culmination of work by thousands of Scientologists.
Scientology’s Ideal Org stands amidst Budapest’s bustling heart. Located on one of the city’s main thoroughfares, Váci Road, in the thriving District XIII, the 64,000-square-foot Church is impossible to miss. Its 85-foot Scientology sign extends across its western elevation and announces its presence to the more than 100,000 commuters each day.
“A longing for spiritual independence” is how Mr. Miscavige described Hungary and the crowd at the opening. “Here stands what you built to proclaim it can be done—your new Ideal Church of Scientology of Budapest!”
The Church’s grand opening is the culmination of the religion’s rapid rise since its founding in Hungary a quarter century ago. In fact more than 33 missions now dot the Hungarian landscape and beyond into neighboring countries of Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. And representatives from each were among the 3,500 Scientologists and guests present at the grand opening ceremony.
Chief among the attendees were leading lights of Hungarian society welcoming the Church to its new home: Dr. István Komáromi, Brigadier General, Police Chief of Pest County Ret.; Dr. Ildikó Hekáné Szondi, Vice-Chair for Culture, Education, Tourism and Youth, City of Szeged; Ms. Ágnes Debreceni, Board Member, Gárdonyi Education Foundation of Hungary; and nationally renowned novelist Mr. István Nemere.
“It was 15 years ago when you first reached out to me. You wanted to run a marathon across Hungary and wake up our country to drugs,” Dr. Komáromi told the crowd. “And so together we launched the first Drug-Free Hungary Marathon in March 2002. And since that time you have swept this nation with our message. Reaching more than 400 towns and cities. Distributing over two million anti-drug booklets. And inspiring the youth of an entire nation to live drug-free lives.”
Ms. Debreceni described how Applied Scholastics, utilizing L. Ron Hubbard’s Study Technology, was transforming the education landscape. “Shortly after beginning my career I encountered problems in educating my students. Many kids were labeled ‘problematic’ or diagnosed with ‘learning difficulties.’ It’s heartbreaking for an educator to see these problems and not have the tools to help. Yet, in this accumulating darkness there are still people working, people bringing hope; unwilling to give up. And I met those people at Applied Scholastics Hungary.”
Adam Caruso: Novelty is nonsense
The European city is one of the great human inventions!” Adam Caruso advocates building with a deep sense of history and tradition. Meet the architect behind the award-winning Tate Britain conversion and numerous Gagosian galleries around the world.
For Adam Caruso architecture is a cultural practice, a question of making buildings that are connected to the history of architecture and “a deeper idea of place, of the history and culture of the place and how you read it today.” His style contrasts many contemporary architects whose buildings, in Caruso’s opinion, represent “a kind of abstraction that becomes more and more reduced of energy and any kind of relevance.” Caruso St John Architects’ Bremer Landesbank in Germany is one example of the architect’s approach. Placed in Bremen’s historic temple district, the building’s expressive brick facade refers to a northern European tradition and gothic character, “a tradition of brick architecture filtered through modern history,” says Caruso.
The beauty of historic buildings is their flexibility, the way they can seamlessly change form warehouse to flats, from public schools to art galleries. “The physical thing, built with a particular intention, has all of this other potential in it. It’s like magic, like alchemy,” says Caruso. Today’s buildings are built as objects with only one purpose, to stand out, with none of the “open-endedness” of historic architecture. “Architecture becomes a commodity, a fantastic expression of late capitalism,” Caruso laments. “To me that’s the opposite of architecture.”
Adam Caruso (b. 1962) is a London-based Canadian architect and founder of Caruso St John Architects, which he founded with Peter St John in 1990. He was Professor of Architecture at the University of Bath from 2002-2005 and has been Professor of Architecture and Construction at the ETH Zurich since 2011. Among many notable and award-winning projects Caruso St. John is behind the Bremer Landesbank, Bremen, Germany, the restructuring of the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood and the master plan for the Tate Britain, Millbank, both London, UK and several of the Gagosian Gallery sites.
Adam Caruso was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at Bygningskulturens Hus in Copenhagen, Denmark in February 2017.
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