Tag: Mellon Institute

  • Mellon Institute at Twilight

    Mellon Institute at twilight

    The colossal columns of the Mellon Institute illuminated from within.

  • World’s Largest Monolithic Columns (Again)

    Columns of the Mellon Institute

    The Mellon Institute, designed by the prolific Benno Janssen, claims the largest monolithic columns in the world. Columns like these are usually made as a series of joined cylinders, but each column here is a single piece of stone. When the client wants to send the message “I spent money on this,” nothing is more effective than giving him the world’s largest something-or-other.

    Note how, unlike most other monumental buildings in Oakland, the Mellon Institute has retained the sooty evidence of decades of heavy industry.

  • Institute Calls to Institute

    Mellon Institute reflected in the Software Engineering Institute

    The titanic columns of the Mellon Institute reflected in the Software Engineering Institute.