Today's page marks the introduction of a new feature, pictorial
construction status reports, depicting the progress (or lack thereof) on
assorted projects going on around the Stanford Medical Center. We'll start
off with 'the Big Hole'. This used to be premiere parking, right
in front of the Fairchild Building where I work (you can see the building
on the left), but now it's a hole, growing larger day-by-day. Eventually,
or so they say, it will be a tunnel connecting the underground Animal Research
Facility to the as-yet-unconstructed Clark Building.
Next up is a lunch-time photo. I took this one while standing in
the doorway of the ground-floor deli in the new Clinical Sciences Research
Facility. Four or five floors up is a giant aluminum grating that creates
a nice area of filtered sunlight, perfect for hanging out on a sunny day.
We're looking up at that grating, seeing it partially reflected in the
weird, outward-billowing windows that run from the second floor to the
roof.
A little after five pm, I set out walking from the Knudsen Lab towards
the Palo Alto/Stanford Caltrain station. It's a nice walk, a little over
a half mile, and there are several paths through the Arboretum that provide
nice views of one kind or another. The Mausoleum and Grieving Angel are
pretty interesting constructions; noted photographer Douglas Keister even
named them 'Tomb of the Month' on his web
site (though he didn't say which month, or when he gave the award).
I don't think that the Palo Alto Caltrain station has won any awards,
but with some fresh paint and a little bit of reconstruction, it could
be in the running for a trophy the early 20th Century pre-space age futurist
architecture category. It sort of reminds me of a classic 50's diner too.
Ting was teaching Taekwondo at Oracle tonight, so I had invited my
mom to go to the Kyung Wha Chung show at Davies Symphony Hall with me.
Reaching San Francisco, I met my mom at her office on Van Ness. We walked
over to Citizen Cake on Grove for a scrumptious pre-show dinner, then waddled
back to Davies Hall with plenty of time for the evening's concert.
We had great seats in the center of the fifth row; just right for
getting a good view of the action on-stage. Kyung Chung gave a most excellent
performance, and Stammer Goal, accompanying her on piano, was no slouch
either. In fact, the experience got me psyched up enough to sign up for
her performance this fall in the Villa Montalvo Carriage House Theatre!
Here's a link to a review of the show by Allan Ulrich at the San
Francisco Chronicle which will also give you some background on Kyung Wha
Chung: Violinist Chung As Intense
as Ever.
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