Tour of UNA's Student Union Building

Written By Robin Wade

​After the Progress Bank tour, we toured UNA's also super cool Student Union Building, also in progress.  This building is situated on UNA's  South most demarcation line, at the North end of Court Street. The intention is to bring the community together and welcome the community.  -  I'm thinking this amazing building might just accomplish it.

It's easy to see just where Hugo's modern vibe is right now.   The most pronounced feature here is a really huge gallery space, running the length of the building.  Huge ceilings, huge walls, massive open areas, lots of glass.  Oh, and we're finally getting a Starbucks.

I think UNA's gonna have something here.  Can't wait to see the final v.  - maybe before the end of the year.​

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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