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John W. Bricker Federal Building
The John W. Bricker Federal Building is a federal office building in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The structure was designed in the Brutalist architecture style and was built in 1977 to house federal offices. It has seven stories, and is part of a facility, including an eight-story parking garage. The building is named for John W. Bricker, an Ohio governor and U.S. senator who lived in Columbus. Attributes The John W. Bricker Federal Building has offices for U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown as well as for the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, and the Departments of United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Housing & Urban Development and United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture. It also has a USPS post office and a cafeteria. The building's exterior features ''Correlation: Two White Line Diagonals and Two Arcs with a Sixteen-Foot Radius'', a work by Robert Mangold, made of porcelain-enamel and steel. History Architects Brubaker/Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith (born Carol Louise McKinney on May 18, 1946) is an American photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed in all the states of the United States, as well as the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. She photographs the entire American vista (including landscapes, architecture, urban and rural life, and people in their work environments) in all fifty U.S. states as a record of the early 21st century. For 42 years (as of 2022), Highsmith has produced a vast collection of more than 100,000 images, donating her life's work copyright- and royalty-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare, one-person archive, to house them. Since 2010, she has traveled intensively in five to eight states a year, refreshing the library's historic collection of American images. Highsmith's work is among 21 featured digital collections, alongside those of Dorothea Lange, Mathew Brady, Detroit Publishing Company postcards, and others, in the library' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
