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The Cathedral of Learning, a Pittsburgh landmark〔 listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Standing at ,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. )〕 the 42-story Late Gothic Revival Cathedral is the tallest educational building in the Western hemisphere and the second tallest university building (fourth tallest educationally-purposed building) in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia )〕 It is also the second tallest gothic-styled building in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh )〕 The Cathedral of Learning was commissioned in 1921 and ground was broken in 1926. The first class was held in the building in 1931 and its exterior finished in October 1934, prior to its formal dedication in June 1937. Colloquially referred to as "Cathy" by Pitt students, the Cathedral of Learning is a steel frame structure overlaid with Indiana limestone and contains more than 2,000 rooms and windows. It functions as a primary classroom and administrative center of the university, and is home to the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and many of its departments, as well as the University Honors College. It previously served as home of the university's College of General Studies (until its relocation to Posvar Hall in 2014). It houses many specialty spaces, including a studio theater, food court, study lounges, offices, computer and language labs, 30 Nationality Rooms, and a , 4-story-high, vaulted, gothic study and event hall. The building contains noted examples of stained glass, stone, wood, and iron work and is often used by the university in photographs, postcards, and other advertisements. ==Use== The basement and floors up to (and including) floor 40 are used for educational purposes, although most floors above 36 house the building's mechanical equipment. These floors include theaters, computer laboratories, language laboratories, classrooms, and departmental offices. The basement contains a black box theater and the ground floor contains computer labs, language labs, classrooms, and the Cathedral Café food court. The "lobby", comprising the first through third floors, contains a massive gothic "Commons Room" that is used as a general study area and for special events and is ringed by three floors of classrooms, including, on the first and third floors, the 30 Nationality Rooms designed by members of the Pittsburgh community in the styles of different nations and ethnic groups. Twenty-eight of these serve as functional classrooms while more conventional classrooms are located on the second floor and elsewhere throughout the building. The first floor also serves as the home to the offices of the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor, and other administration offices, as well as the Nationality Rooms Gift Shop. The fourth floor, previously home to the main stacks of the university's library, is now occupied by the McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success. The fifth floor originally housed the main borrowing, reference, and reading rooms of the university library, and now houses the Department of English. The Pitt Humanities Center is housed in the former Darlington Memorial Library on the sixth floor. Additionally, the University Honors College is located on the 35th and 36th floors. The Cathedral of Learning houses the Department of Philosophy, considered one of the top five in the United States, and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, consistently ranked at the top of the field.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The Philosophical Gourmet Report 2006-2008:Breakdown:Philosophy of Science )〕 Other departments in the Cathedral include English, Religious Studies, Statistics, Theatre Arts, and the School of Social Work which maintains the highest classrooms in the building located on the 23rd floor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Media Enhanced Classrooms - Cathedral of Learning )〕〔Although there are no classrooms higher than the 23rd floor, classes occasionally meet in rooms on higher floors, either temporarily due to unavoidable circumstances (e.g., if a normal classroom is temporarily unavailable) or permanently by a consensus of the students and instructor (if a class is small enough to meet in a professor's personal office or a student lounge).〕 Floors 37–40 are closed to the general public, as they contain electrical wiring for the building, as well as the Babcock Room, a large conference room on the 40th floor used for meetings, seminars, and special events and which provides a panoramic view of downtown Pittsburgh and the rest of the university. The 40th floor balcony also houses a nesting pair of Peregrine falcons. A view from the top is available via a webcam.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Live Webcams: Cathedral )〕 Golden lights, dubbed "victory lights," surround the outside of the highest floors and are lit following Pitt football wins and other notable victories, giving the upper part of the Cathedral an amber glow.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alumni Traditions: Victory Lights )〕 The top of the building serves as the site for the transmitter of the student-run radio station WPTS-FM〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=92.1 WPTS Pittsburgh )〕 as well as the amateur radio repeater W3YJ which is run by the Panther Amateur Radio club on a frequency of 443.45 MHz.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PA-SitRep.com (Pennsylvania Situation Report Web Site - O'Hara Township Amateur Radio Emergency Communications 443.45 Repeater) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=W3YJ - PARC Repeater - Pittsburgh, PA - Amateur Radio Repeaters on Waymarking.com )〕 The building is also one of the host buildings of Pennsylvania's Mock Trial Competition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cathedral of Learning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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