Hey guys. I am about to start a mammoth huge project. Creating a 3d replica of Berkeley University for future application of webdesign and such. (srry I can't get into the application part of it cause its kinda secret but if this works ooh its going to be awesome.)

What I can say is that we are going to create a navigable environment of Berkeley Univ. and I am one of the lead 3d dudes working on it. Since I do not live there I need to gather as much photo reference I can, and if possible the names of the buildings and any history behind them, like who commissioned it to be built and yadda yadda. I will go down there to visit it personally and take some photos but I was hoping you guys can help me out.

Mostly I need photos of the buildings, like a walkabout from as many views as I can, since I am starting on the models now. If you want to know more about me and what I do take a look at the HK forum, I typically make HK buildings for a game called Simcity 4, but now this is my new project.

Me in the HK forum >>> http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=384216

me at Simtropolis >>>
http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=153&threadid=79751&enterthread=y

As a Berkeley grad, I'm glad to assist. Cal is such a gorgeous campus, here's just a taste of what the it's all about...

Campanile
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Campanile_from_South_East.JPG/487px-Campanile_from_South_East.JPG/[img]
Sather Gate
[img]http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/pics/campuspics/sathergate_280.jpg
Telegraph Avenue
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/11/300px-Telegraph-Ave-Berkeley.jpg
Memorial Stadium
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/images/stadium.jpg
Wheeler Auditorium
http://facilities.calperfs.berkeley.edu/wheeler/jpg/wheeler_3.jpg
Zellerbach Auditorium/Lower Sproul
http://facilities.calperfs.berkeley.edu/zellerbach_auditorium/jpg/front_2.jpg
Haas School of Business
http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu/images_local/haas_small1.jpg
Lawrence Hall of Science
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/c/c4/275px-LawrenceHallofScience2007.jpg
Berkeley Hills
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/8/8a/LHS_view.jpg
International House
http://www.peyrot.info/Berkeley_Ihouse.jpg
Bowles Hall
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/a/aa/400px-Bowleshall.jpg
Durant Hall, Dean/Chancellor's Office
http://berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_landmarks/images/UC_campus/Durant_Hall.jpg
Wellman Hall
http://berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_landmarks/images/UC_campus/Wellman_Hall.jpg
Harmon Gym
http://berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_landmarks/images/UC_campus/Haas_Pavilion.jpg
Undergrad Library
http://ieas.berkeley.edu/images/ieas/doeview.jpg

Nice!! Wellman Hall seems tiny! looks like it only has room for two classrooms. The names help out alot since I can now search google by building name, so that gets me a step in the right direction. thanks!!

Nice!! Wellman Hall seems tiny! looks like it only has room for two classrooms. The names help out alot since I can now search google by building name, so that gets me a step in the right direction. thanks!!
No problem. You may also want to check out www.berkeley.edu for campus maps, other landmark buildings.

Oh, and I forgot the most important landmark of all - Sather Gate
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/pics/campuspics/sathergate_280.jpg

Cal is such a beautiful campus.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Will you be able to convert it into a SC4 building somehow??? ;)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.



this beholder thinks Cal trumps Stanford as the Bay Area's most beautiful university.

this beholder thinks Cal trumps Stanford as the Bay Area's most beautiful university.

You went to CaL, didn't you? Grad school maybe. Possibly part of the free speech movement?

You went to CaL, didn't you? Grad school maybe. Possibly part of the free speech movement?

"free speech movement"...gotta love you, svs. no: education was pretty much at home with Iowa, UIC, and Roosevelt (grad school).

Shockingly, svs, I didn't even attend classes at UPRA*

* University of Palestine at Ram Allah :banana:

"free speech movement"...gotta love you, svs. no: education was pretty much at home with Iowa, UIC, and Roosevelt (grad school).

Shockingly, svs, I didn't even attend classes at UPRA*

* University of Palestine at Ram Allah :banana:

Thanks, I think. I'll take any love I can get. Especially on this forum. You're pretty familiar with SF for such a Chicago booster. I figured you probably went to school there. I really pictured you out in front of Sather gate with a picket sign and some love beads. Oh well.

Thanks, I think. I'll take any love I can get. Especially on this forum. You're pretty familiar with SF for such a Chicago booster. I figured you probably went to school there. I really pictured you out in front of Sather gate with a picket sign and some love beads. Oh well.

moved to SF from Chgo when I was jr high age for 4 years. Loaded with family out there. My mom's uncle left Russia and came to SF by way of China early in the 20th century. My aunt and 2 uncles moved there from Chicago both before I was born and when I was young. So we've had friends and family in SF, up in Petaluma, in the East Bay...lots of places. And I have frequently gone on trips to the Bay Area.

So, yes, it is a very much beloved second home.

moved to SF from Chgo when I was jr high age for 4 years. Loaded with family out there. My mom's uncle left Russia and came to SF by way of China early in the 20th century. My aunt and 2 uncles moved there from Chicago both before I was born and when I was young. So we've had friends and family in SF, up in Petaluma, in the East Bay...lots of places. And I have frequently gone on trips to the Bay Area.

So, yes, it is a very much beloved second home.

Well we have something else in common. I have lots of family in the bay area as well (though I have never lived there) including faculty at Cal. I go up all the time. Its a good second home.

If you weren't in the Berkeley free speech movement, were you at least in Lincoln Park during the 68 fracas?

Mostly I need photos of the buildings, like a walkabout from as many views as I can, since I am starting on the models

You might find Flickr to be rather useful. Users upload their pictures and you can browse through them.

Overview of campus: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/496878278_82cbcc193e_b.jpg

Hearst Mining Circle (under re-construction), Hearst Mining Building (the one with the arches) and Stanley Hall (the one with green tiles).
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/506797027_da592f2bb4_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1130/1429178605_74fc70bfd4_b.jpg

Wheeler Hall and the Campanile
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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1037/1035773845_1e60b508b1_b.jpg

Doe Library
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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/464189656_6f25cfe6fa_o.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Berkeley_glade_afternoon.jpg

You can also find some aerial pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kap_cris/sets/72157600090274140/with/464196807/

please post them here. thanks

Here are some:

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I will post some more pics tomorrow, taken by me on last summer.

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I will post some more pics tomorrow, taken by me on last summer.

We're waiting for your pics. Thanks in advance.

Lots of nice photos!

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I used to go here. They're building a new one right now which is 4 times bigger than the old one.
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great photos. The first aerial photos look like they're photos of a model of Stanford....

Stanford is it a religious university?????????

Huge!

I hope someone will contribute on this thread...

Stanford is it a religious university?????????

The church in the middle is non-denominational, but you could probably say it has Christian roots with no affiliations.

I hope someone will contribute on this thread...

We do have a San Francisco Bay Area forum now. You can find lots of photos there or even ask some members from the South Bay. :)

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ROTC enrollment officer Michael Pope, left, speaks with Kaitlyn Benitez-Strine, 17, at Stanford University. (Dave Getzschman / For the Los Angeles Times / April 29, 2011)

By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rotc-20110601,0,3528287.story)
June 1, 2011

Reporting from Palo Alto -- On an early May morning 43 years ago, fire swept through Stanford University's Navy ROTC building, destroying a structure that had been damaged in another suspicious blaze just two months earlier.

No arrests were ever made in the two arson fires, but they came at a time of angry, sometimes violent demonstrations against the Vietnam War on college campuses nationwide. Those protests often targeted the closest symbol of the U.S. military, the Reserve Officers Training Corps — with more than 200 campus ROTC units reporting vandalism during that war.

Flash forward to a much different time.

On a recent afternoon, Stanford senior Ann Thompson wore her Army ROTC uniform with pride as she helped staff a recruiting table for the military training program at a campus activities fair. She chatted with visitors about the ROTC's scholarships as a few dozen students marched nearby to protest the program's likely expansion at Stanford.

"There definitely are people not supportive of ROTC, but we still have respectful conversations," said Thompson, 22, of Paso Robles. "I can't fathom anyone burning a building down."

Helped by the recession, more active recruiting and a sea change in student perceptions of the military, enrollment in ROTC programs on college campuses is booming.

Even with ongoing U.S. involvement in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya, participation in the program has surged 27% over the last four years — to 56,757 men and women, according to the Defense Department. The military boosted the number of ROTC scholarships to help expand the wartime officer corps, and the recession made the offers attractive to students.

Today's college students, who never faced a military draft and whose childhood memories include the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are more receptive than their parents' generation to seeing fellow students in uniform. Returning veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and are now enrolled in college also create a more sympathetic, and familiar, image of the military.

In another sign of the changing times, the congressional rescinding last year of the "don't ask, don't tell" ban on gays serving openly in the military has recently led Stanford, Harvard and several other elite universities to take steps to welcome the ROTC back to their campuses for the first time in 40 years.

On-campus military training still raises hackles for some. Yet even critics acknowledge that most current college students are willing to accept the ROTC.

Gay activist Marco Chan helped organize anti-ROTC rallies at Harvard this spring, focusing on the military's continuing ban against transgender individuals. A senior from Vancouver, Chan, 23, called the school's decision to restore the ROTC discriminatory: "To make a highly symbolic gesture, Harvard has thrown its own student body under the bus," he said.

But Chan said many Harvard students seemed sympathetic to the military. "They grew up in a post-911 world," he said. "The war on terror has been a part of their daily lives."

Jimmy Ruck, a 21-year-old Stanford senior and Army ROTC cadet from Millbrae, Calif., will join a military intelligence unit as a second lieutenant after he graduates next month.

"We are putting a face on the military, showing that we are not some faceless, heartless machine, that we are individual human beings and that we are doing this for a variety of reasons," said Ruck, who along with Thompson is one of 14 Stanford students who are enrolled in the ROTC but must train at other Bay Area campuses. "Some are doing it for leadership, for public service, or if you want to pay for your college."

Ruck applauded the April 28 Stanford faculty vote to invite the program back to the campus and said he hopes the university's small ROTC contingent will grow, especially if its cadets no longer have to travel elsewhere to train.

Experts say the recent change of heart by influential American universities will boost the prestige of the program, which was founded during the Civil War on the belief that the nation needs a well-educated officer corps imbued with civilian values.

"It shows historically that the military and civilian society are trying to bridge the gap," said Donald Downs, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and coauthor of a new book about the ROTC.

But those schools still will play a small role in the national ROTC, which never left most U.S. campuses. Nearly 500 units are in existence, and many other schools without their own programs send students to train at other area colleges, including Stanford's Army ROTC members training at Santa Clara University, Navy at UC Berkeley and Air Force at San Jose State. (ROTC scholarships can be worth as much as $43,000 a year at expensive schools; all recipients must then serve four years in the armed forces, with four more in the reserves.)

Despite UC Berkeley's reputation as a center of '60s radicalism, the ROTC remained on campus and about 150 students are now enrolled.

Don Johnson, a rhetoric major from Oakland who is soon to become an Army second lieutenant, said off-campus antiwar activists have hassled him when he's worn his ROTC uniform. But no student ever bothered him.

"Usually, people will ask what I'm doing after school and a lot of seniors understand the need for a job, and the fact that I have one makes them envious," said Johnson, 22.

In the Vietnam era, hostility toward the ROTC soared as the war's casualties increased and reached a height when U.S. troops were sent into Cambodia in 1970. Student protesters occupied ROTC centers at many colleges, and fires and explosions damaged the program's buildings at the University of Michigan, Kent State University and the University of Colorado.

The ROTC was pushed off some campuses after faculty and administrators stopped giving academic credit for its courses and imposed other restrictions. Programs elsewhere died for lack of interest after the draft ended in 1973 and fewer men sought to become officers as a way to survive the war.

From 1968 to 1974, the ROTC closed 88 units, many at private schools in the Northeast, and opened 80 replacements, mainly at friendlier public colleges in the South and Midwest, according to Michael Neiberg, a military historian at the University of Southern Mississippi who wrote a book about the program.

Nowadays, the Pentagon is happy to be wooed by Stanford and other top private schools. The Navy signed an agreement with Harvard in March and, last week, with Yale and Columbia to re-establish units. But officials said they must study costs and the need for officers before promising other units. "New universities interested in ROTC programs will each be evaluated for the most efficient use of these resources," said Eileen M. Lainez, a Defense Department spokeswoman.

At schools with the ROTC, students and administrators say the program has become just another strand in the fabric of campus life.

"It's just another thing that's here, that's available," said Michelle McGrain, a student government leader at the University of Maryland. The student response "is kind of neutral," she said. "It's not a huge issue."

larry.gordon@latimes.com

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As UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium patches up their aging concrete facilities, the Cal football team is set to kick off their 2011 season in San Francisco starting in September. The team's first game against Fresno State will actually take place at the home of the Niners down in Candlestick Park, but after a short roadtrip to Colorado, AT&T Park becomes bear territory for the rest of the team's home games in 2011.

While us townies continue to fret over the possibility of more unruly sports fans clogging transit and unloading their bladders into the gutters of SoMa, the move to San Francisco has some of the in-state players (Read: Giants fans) on Cal's roster fired up. As Left Tackle Mitchell Schwartz, who played in Mission Bay when Cal took on Miami for the 2008 Emerald Bowl told the Chronicle yesterday: "As a Giants fan, I love the idea of playing there. For me, it gives a little extra excitement to it."

On the other hand, the rest of the Giants fans might not be so excited about the shared stadium. If the Giants keep the season alive in to the playoffs (god willing), there could be some scheduling conflicts. Notably, the big ticket rivalry between Cal and USC scheduled for Thursday, October 13th will overlap with one game of the National League Championship Series. Traveling SoCal fans who already make hotel arrangements might get the raw end of that deal though - Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour told ESPN the college team is looking at another game at Candlestick or possibly even Oakland Coliseum as a backup.

The Big Game between Cal and Stanford is (mercifully) down in Stanford this year.

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The University of San Francisco announced today that they've purchased 101 Howard Street, the former Folger Coffee Company headquarters and warehouse for $36,500,000. Built in 1905 on landfill, the building (barely) survived the 1906 earthquake and currently houses the Wharton School of Business' San Francisco campus, which is decamping shortly to a larger cup at Hills Plaza a few blocks away. There's a history of the site, with vintage maps and images, courtesy of one of the building's admiring tenants. USF was founded by Jesuits as Saint Ignatius Academy in 1855 on Market Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets, became Saint Ignatius College as it moved west and finally became the University of San Francisco in 1927 at the current location on Fulton Street in the Lone Mountain neighborhood. Presumably the new site will make USF's programs more attractive to students already working in the neighborhood, plus there's easy access to BART and the Transbay Terminal.