The Kessler Campanile is an 80-foot-tall (24 m) campanile located at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[1][2] Designed by artist Richard Hill,[3] a University of Georgia graduate,[4] it was originally constructed for the 1996 Olympic Games.[5] It is named after Richard C. Kessler, Tech graduate and former head of Days Inns. It is frequently referred to as "The Campanile" or "The Shaft" (a tongue-in-cheek reference to student opinion on the school's difficult curriculum). The amphitheater and the Campanile reopened in 2011 after a two-year-long reconstruction as part of the ongoing Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons construction.[6]
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