Designed by Boora Architects to meet the needs of 21st century teaching, research and sustainability, the new buildings set a modern tone that looks forward as it recalls the legacy of Stanford's original sandstone facades and arch-lined arcades.
The Parador de Córdoba, Avenida de la Arruzafa s/n, 34-955) 727-5900, www.parador.es, is a modern building set in the hills about a mile outside the city in the ruins of a Moorish summer palace, with lovely gardens and a pool.
The stretch is lined on both sides by modern business buildings set in park-like clusters.
Smoke was coming out of the Iraqi Olympic Committee headquarters, a modern office building set away from the main road.
In clusters of modern low-and high-rise office buildings set amid acres of lush greenery here, thousands of engineers are hard at work, writing software for the latest telephones, designing next-generation microprocessors and developing wireless broadband technology.
Again the noir attitude is a fairly superficial application to a standard thriller plot, but Ivano's deep-focus cinematography is an artistic triumph in itself, as are the midcentury modern office building sets designed by a team including the great Hans Dreier.
Before leaving Bastogne, we spent some time at the American Memorial, an ultra-modern, star-shaped building set atop a hill and affording a sweeping view of Bastogne, the Ardennes forests and the battlefield, now quiet and meadow-like.
But then, Helsinki is a feast for the architecture and design buff, with its neo-Classical and Art Nouveau buildings setting the stage for its modern gems.
More detailed proposals for changes to the campus have yet to be finalised but it expects modern buildings in a "parkland setting".
Both architects, Prussian and Mexican, understood the mollifying play of water when set closely against the clean lines of modern buildings.
