Ancient AND Authentic
Some friends have got me thinking. Thinking about the past, about history, and thinking about the now. I live close to the campus of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. They’ve recently built the new, state-of-the-art, Paul Barret, Jr. Library. If you drove a car down my street going east, and kept straight onto Rhodes campus, you’d hit the new spire and entrance to this amazing new building. I saw it go up. Brick-by-brick. And it is truly awe inspiring. I think it’s the most beautiful building in Memphis. But perhaps the most beautiful aspect of the new library, built in the colleges’ time-tested standard limestone (talk about solid branding), is the seemingly seamless combination of old and new. It’s not a stodgy, old, stinky building. It’s new, and technologically advanced, and fresh, and full of people being really productive. And that, is a wonder to behold.