#bell building

[atlurbanist]

Bell Building is being turned into a new GSU Student Success Center

Darin Givens | March 21, 2024

Exterior work is well underway on an adaptive-reuse project that will convert the Bell Building into a new Student Success Center for GSU! This is exciting to see. You can find information on the successful effort to preserve this structure at the https://savethebell.org site.

This has been a nice victory for historic preservation and for the urbanism of Downtown Atlanta!

In 2015, Georgia State University announced it was going to raze historic Bell Building and replace it with surface parking lots. This struck me and other preservation-minded advocates as a horrible thing that needed to be fought -- especially since the demolition was going to be funded with a donation from the Woodruff Foundation, which also funds preservation work.

We went to work by creating the Save the Bell website & social media channels, by talking to media outlets, reaching out to GSU administration and the Board of Regents, and talking to local city leaders. We were even involved in co-writing a City Council resolution to establish this as a landmark structure, which would have protected it from demolition.

Luckily it worked! And within a year or two, GSU backed away from the demolition plan.

Then in 2021 the good news came: GSU would use a different Woodruff grant to help preserve the Bell and reuse it as a new student success building.

For some background on the history of the Bell, check out this page on the Save the Bell website. It's actually two buildings fused together, both built as a telephone exchange by the Southern Bell company in two stages, in 1907 and 1922.

I'm very grateful to have been part of this effort to prevent the demolition of a structure that was clearly a viable candidate for adaptive reuse. It's a shame that GSU leadership ever wanted to raze it, but I congratulate them on doing the right thing in the end.

And huge kudos to all the local preservation advocates who spoke up in 2015-16 about the need to save the Bell, and to all the local journalists who covered our cause. This will now stand as a reminder of a great group effort, and of the fact that minds can be changed when it comes to the way we treat our urban fabric.

#atlanta #urbanism #downtown atlanta #bell building #adaptive reuse

[egophiliac]

"IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE" As someone who's been playing TWST since march and stopped going out of my way to be spoilerfree after I got stuck at Overblott!Jamil? That's honestly been one of my favorite things about it - seeing something in fanart or a comment you think is just fans joking, only for it to be canon. "The economy!", "May I also throw a tantrum?", Malleus' gargoyle thing, and... everything about Rook being my top examples.

there's a whole bit in Trey's platinum birthday card where he goes on about how he became increasingly obsessed with mustard for like a week straight until the other students held an intervention. how are you supposed to talk about this. how can you bring up something like Trey's descent into mustard obsession to the point that the other characters are worried for him without it sounding like the most obvious lolrandom "he mentioned it once and now fandom acts like he puts mustard in everything" joke. also, how can I slip this into every Twst post from now on, because I need everyone in the world to know that this is a real canon fact about Trey "I'm just an average normal guy (who sticks my hands into people's mouths and owns 20 toothbrushes and used to eat flowers off the side of the road)" Clover.

for bonus points, 1) the punchline is that he still doesn't even like mustard that much, 2) he's saying all of this to Leona, and 3) Leona is actually kind of invested in Trey's mustard story for some reason, which is the most unbelievable part of all of this to be honest. (then Trey gets distracted by a painting of the Cheshire Cat and Leona takes the opportunity to powerwalk away to freedom before they can start talking about dijon versus spicy brown or whatever and extend this bit even longer)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #platinum jacket birthday #sorry that this ended up as me just talking about trey's birthday story for...about as long as trey talked about mustard. whoops. #i have said it before and i'll say it again though #the birthday cards have the best and most insane lore and i love them #especially for trey. he wants us to believe he's just some ordinary dude SO bad but he also keeps saying shit like this. #although to be fair as soon as rook enters the building the weirdness bell curve gets immediately fubar'd #so i guess it's all relative #me any time the characters brush off the most whackadoodle bonkers nonsense: why are they not questioning...oh wait #this is a universe in which rook exists and is a real person that they know #never mind please continue

[unbfacts]

#Indiana Bell Building #Buildings #Places

[ilanarose7]

Ashton- lost the trust of the group and has worryingly little self worth

Laudna - feels Delilah taking over, regressed back to witch in the woods

Fearne - feels guilty, scared of her fate, something strange is going on with her mom

Imogen - trying to hold on to the Laudna she loves and keep Delilah away while also trying to keep the group from completely falling apart

Chetney - trying to be there for his friends while also making sure they realize the severity of their actions

Orym: weirdly quiet in the aftermath (I know Liam wasn’t there but for RP sake)

Good luck to FCG, he’s got his work cut out for him. Time to let that inner therapist/camp counselor side shine!

#critical role #cr spoilers #cr3 #bells hells #ashton greymoore #laudna #fearne calloway #imogen temult #chetney pock o'pea #orym of the air ashari #cr fcg #nothing like group therapy in the fey realm to bring everyone together I guess #also they dragged Allura along for this which means Matt is kind of part of this #CR team building retreat!

[gorgynei]

do u think they take their hormone replacement potions together. i do

#building an elaborate trans healthcare system in my head for exandria. theres layers. its awesome to make up stuff for fun #the colours are nods to the respective real-world equivalents of the E/T potions o7 #ramblings #aceart #chetney pock o'pea #imogen temult #critical role #bell's hells

[tapefish]

dont worry about me, got all the luck I need

#id in alt #my art #kobra kid #yes it took a while to build that collection yes it acts as an impromptu flail #something something stealing good luck charms from other racers (sometimes corpses sometimes not) #he'll take a racers lucky charms for losing over carbons/supplies (everyone hates that). he makes it personal lol #kobra voice: well CLEARLY it wasnt working for them #cherri voice: when you get jumped for this. I'll help #boy doesnt care if its good or bad luck hell take everything he can get #does it work? probably not. has he lost yet? probably not #also to list all the charms I added :] acorn bat cherries rabbits foot mustard seed ace of spades clover ladybug fish bell horseshoe #triple sevens snake eyes rosary/bad luck beads!! #also kobras knuckle tats say lucky yyou and the back of their hands are just. littered with stick and pokes of other luck symbols #way to tkake a motif and beat it into the ground

[mycatts]

laura, when the lights turn red:

#in honor of the lunar eclipse #yes i did go through all the imogen dreams thanks cr wiki #crazy tho we have like six dreams now at this point #seven if you count the one before she destroyed a bunch of buildings #critical role #bells hells #bell's hells #imogen temult #laura bailey #edit: i think i skipped a dream but im too lazy too change it now #so i think the number of dreams i said is wrong

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

not me immediately getting jude from this

who did you guys get? 👀

#idk any of them i just see jude around a lot so it made me chuckle #@/judejazza and their wonderful posts i often run into #victor is apparently my opposite from these options and elbert is my 2nd choice or smth #(friends and i usually do 'quizzes' 3x to get our main/secondary/opposite) #anyway im just snooping around now. still not sure how i feel abt it but was never too tempted for ikevil. #the less gacha in my life atp the better ngl ;;;;;;;; its why ive stayed away from most of the new games and tryna limit current ones #though if they ever do finally drop ikegen (unlikely asf) ..... count my ass in #i can't even be mad ikepri dropped bc ive enjoyed it so much more than i ever thought i would. easily my fav or 2nd fav bc ikerev #i still adore ikerev and magic and the world building and everything.. alice is just pretty dumb sometimes #which is why i adore b&tb-esque belle/emma so much. also why i like mai in some routes (ikesen humor op) #ikevamp has always just kinda been there tbh. usually the events feel more interesting than the routes ngl;;; charas are fun tho #anyway let's see how this bad boy goes #who did y'all get?? #ikevil #ikemen villains #my post 📫 #aerin.jpg #from the official ig acct btw

[williammarksommer]

Bell Court Motel

Lost Highway series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

#Bell Court Motel #Lost Highway #motel sign #motel #sign #neon #neon sign #abandoned #abandoned buildings #travel #road sign #on the road #road trip #film #film photography #photo #photography #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #photographerslife #hasselblad 500c/m #120 #film is not dead #hasselblad #kodak #William Mark Sommer #highway

[pink-pone]

it's been forever since I've ponified a MLP:FiM building! and thanks to @emeraldstarlight 's help we've got another one for you! this time being the Cutie Mark Crusader clubhouse!

#mlp #my little pony #mlpfim #my art #my little pony friendship is magic #mlp:fim #collab #cmc #cmc clubhouse #cutie mark crusaders #applebloom #scootaloo #sweetie belle #ponified buildings

[happyheidi]

#this! this is where we build our happyhippie commune! #cottagecore #I wanna plant flowers with u here #and ring that bell!!! #nature #naturecore #flowers #flowercore #goats #animals #herbs #colorful #cottage aesthetic

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

sekai au 👊😔

#my post #hatsune loopku..... #isat #in stars and time #isat siffrin #isat loop #I was SUPPOSED to make a modern au but look. where that got me #prpject sekai..... #hsatsune miku...... #woaw......... #I haven't planned this yet. I just wanted to draw loop with Miku's pigtails really badly because I came up with the shape idea and went lik #ogguuguuuuGUG #oh bell yeas #actually well I have a little #small group of college students who met via tutor group (by odile) that turned into a book club and maybe band? #they would all suck playing instruments honestly #I made it a sekai au because I needed loop to go SOMEWHERE and went insane trying to figure something out till I finally went fuck whatever #fine #siffrin made a sekai and loop is there. fine. whatever. fine. yeah. fine #I don't know how the timeloop will come in. #I cant have both a timeloop and a sekai at once. #I would forget the other exists #and focus all on one #or it would be too much at once #also its kind of hard to do a timeloop like the one in-game in a modern way? #there's no good rocks to be crushed by that aren't like a collapsing building anyway #OH OH also this might be the last project sekai related art you see for a WHILE #this game hit my brain worse than project sekai I'm so serious #I've burned through almost all of my sketchbook and there are three(3) drawings that aren't siffrin #THREE.

[kleinefreiheiten]

04.2022 Istanbul

#photographers on tumblr #istanbul #extraordinary buildings #street corner #eminönü #belle epoque #©p.mandelkow

[sourtomatola]

And say hello the concept that started this whole comic series! I almost called this Kinglebells AU XD Original post to the start of this joke (Yes @chaoticgouda, you started this all XD)

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Camelot comic masterpost

#so many links #I've been dying to call this #kingle bells #Just call the whole AU that #It does get a little more camelot-ish #fnaf moon #moondrop #fnaf sun #sundrop #art #my art #comic #camelot AU #Especially for some reason I struggle to spell Camelot right #staffbot #Been dying to write this particular comic for a while now #but I had to build up to it XD

[pocketgalaxies]

thinking about if/how the loss of opal as we know her will affect at all their perception of protecting the gods, especially compounded with fcg's death. when you reunite with someone you've missed so much and all he has to tell you is that his brother was killed by a god and his friend was forcibly surrendered to serve that god in the name of self-protection from predathos. when your best friend found so much hope in their god and went on this journey with you feeling like they were doing the work of a god who helped him find purpose, and all there is to show for it is a pile of scrap metal. how do you reconcile the idea that your mission is to defeat this entity that threatens the gods, when the gods are relentlessly demanding sacrifice and death from the people you love in order to protect themselves. how can you not think for at least a moment that maybe the gods deserve to be destroyed

#these are not original ideas and i don't exactly want the party to rehash this debate again #but i do wish there was some alternative route. bc it doesn't feel like there's any real choice but to fight predathos #bc of the threat of the unknown and the threat to the order of the world. but the reality is it'll feel Bad even in success #i don't want all of this toil and loss to build up to some moment that doesn't even feel triumphant #bc all they would've done is protect a pantheon that has shown itself to be cruel and selfish and horribly arrogant #and yes yes BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING i know there were nuances to fcg's death. he didn't die for the changebringer. #that's not my POINT #4h9m c3e93 #text #critical role #cr3 #cr lb #cr spoilers #cr meta #r: bells hells #opal cr #fresh cut grass #spider queen cr #changebringer cr #nova shh

[jack-o-phantom]

Just a moment more

(mini comic under the cut)

#rusted bells & faded ribbons #rbfr sundrop #post apocalyptic au #theharedraws #doodle #lore drop #fnaf security breach #I'll dismantle him and build him up again don't worry #angst comic #cw blood