Quadrangle or The Quadrangle may refer to:

Architecture

Quadrangle (architecture) In architecture, a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad) is a space or a courtyard, usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building (or several smaller buildings). T ...

, a courtyard surrounded by a building or several buildings, often at a college Various specific quadrangles, often called "the quad" or "the quadrangle":

North America

Quadrangle (Springfield, Massachusetts) The Quadrangle is the common name for a cluster of museums and cultural institutions in Metro Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, on Chestnut Street between State and Edwards Streets. The Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden, in the cent ...

, a cluster of museums and cultural institutions *

Quadrangle Dormitories (University of Pennsylvania) The Quadrangle Dormitories (commonly referred to as Quad) are a complex of 39 conjoined residence houses at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The architectural firm of Cope and Stewardson designed the ho ...

Francis Quadrangle David R. Francis Quadrangle is the historical center of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Known as The Quad it is the oldest part of Red Campus and adjacent to Downtown Columbia at the south end of the Avenue of the Columns. At ...

, University of Missouri *

Memorial Quadrangle The Memorial Quadrangle is a residential quadrangle at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Commissioned in 1917 to supply much-needed student housing for Yale College, it was Yale's first Collegiate Gothic building and its first project ...

, Yale University *

Radcliffe Quadrangle (Harvard) The Radcliffe Quadrangle at Harvard University, formerly the residential campus of Radcliffe College, is part of Harvard's undergraduate campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Nicknamed the Quad, it is a tra ...

Schenley Quadrangle Schenley Quadrangle is a cluster of University of Pittsburgh ("Pitt") residence halls that is a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark and are contributing property, contributing properties to the Schenley Farms Historic di ...

, University of Pittsburgh *

University of Alabama Quad The Quad is an approximately quadrangle on the campus of the University of Alabama located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Home to most of the university's original buildings, this portion of the campus remains the geographic and historic center of the ...

, University of Alabama

Europe

Mob Quad Mob Quad is a four-sided group of buildings from the 13th and 14th centuries in Merton College, Oxford, surrounding a small lawn. It is often claimed to be the oldest quadrangle in Oxford and elsewhere, although Merton's own Front Quad was actu ...

, Merton College, Oxford *

Radcliffe Quadrangle The Radcliffe Quadrangle (or Rad Quad as it is known to students of the College) is the second Quadrangle (architecture), quadrangle of University College, Oxford, University College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England. The buildings have b ...

, University College, Oxford *

Tom Quad The Great Quadrangle, more popularly known as Tom Quad, is one of the quadrangles of Christ Church, Oxford, England. It is the largest college quad in Oxford, measuring 264 by 261 feet. Although it was begun by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525–1529, h ...

(Great Quadrangle), Christ Church, Oxford * Main Quad at the Main Building of University College London

Oceania

University of Sydney Quadrangle The University of Sydney Quadrangle is a prominent quadrangle formed through the construction of several Sydney sandstone buildings located within The University of Sydney Campus, adjacent to Parramatta Road, in Sydney, New South Wales, Austra ...

, a sandstone building at the University of Sydney (Camperdown)

Other

Quadrangle (geography) A "quadrangle" is a topographic map produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) covering the United States. The maps are usually named after local physiographic features. The shorthand "quad" is also used, especially with the name of t ...

, a United States Geological Survey topographical map *

Quadrangle (horse) Quadrangle (April 16, 1961 – September 28, 1978) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1964 Belmont Stakes. Background Bred by Paul Mellon, Quadrangle was foaled at the Rokeby Farm near Upperville, Virginia. He was out of the mar ...

, American thoroughbred, winner of the 1964 Belmont Stakes *

Quadrangle Books Times Books (previously the New York Times Book Company) is a publishing imprint owned by the New York Times Company and licensed to Henry Holt and Company. Times Books began as the New York Times Book Company in 1969, when The New York Times Comp ...

, an imprint of Times Books *

Quadrangle Group Quadrangle Group is a private investment firm focused on private equity. The firm invests in middle-market companies within the media, communications and information-based sectors. The firm, which is based in New York City, was founded in 2000, ...

investment fund in New York City *

BDP Quadrangle (architecture firm) BDP Quadrangle is the North American studio of UK-based global architecture, design, and urbanism firm, BDP.Julia Gilbert, Communications Coordinator, Quadrangle, 2020. History Quadrangle was founded in June 1986 as a merger between two firms ...

, Toronto, Canada *

Complete quadrangle In mathematics, specifically in incidence geometry and especially in projective geometry, a complete quadrangle is a system of geometric objects consisting of any four Point (geometry), points in a Plane (geometry), plane, no three of which are C ...

(projective geometry), a configuration with four points and six lines *Love quadrangle, variant form of a

love triangle A love triangle or eternal triangle is a scenario or circumstance, usually depicted as a rivalry, in which two people are pursuing or involved in a romantic relationship with one person, or in which one person in a romantic relationship with so ...

, in which three people vie for the affections of a fourth *

The Quadrangle (Antarctica) The Quadrangle is an ice-covered area (essentially a glacial cirque) enclosed on three sides by rock ridges, but open to the south, lying between Mount Umbriel and Venus Glacier in eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. The Quadrangle was first mapp ...

, a glacial cirque on Alexander Island *

The Quadrangle (Manhattan College) ''The Quadrangle'' (or ''The Quad'') is the student-run newspaper of Manhattan College. ''The Quadrangle'' publishes weekly on Tuesdays during the academic year at Manhattan College. It is editorially independent of the college's administratio ...

, the student newspaper of Manhattan College *

Quadrilateral In geometry a quadrilateral is a four-sided polygon, having four edges (sides) and four corners (vertices). The word is derived from the Latin words ''quadri'', a variant of four, and ''latus'', meaning "side". It is also called a tetragon, ...

(geometry), a four sided polygon

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