Finding the Front Door

For a long while I've been wondering what this building is used for. 

It is an addition to the NCAA headquarters just to the east, 

but why? Does administrating the national collegiate sports programs

really require so much additional space? As it turned out,

the building is a conference center, a place for the

organization to host its meetings with the member schools.

 I'd always seen it from this side which is, essentially, the back door.

I found this out when I followed the path to the north side

of the building, where I saw a large sweeping 

drive with a canopy over the entrance.

The side of the building is glass-enclosed, but striped horizontally, 

allowing some daylight to enter but providing privacy 

for the people inside. The alternating widths of the stripes

echoed the horizontal at the back of the building, which seem 

to break up the huge expanses of glass that look out

on the White River State Park just beyond.

What I found to be amazing is that I took these pictures 
with my little digital camera, yet the images of the buildings 
came out looking like architectural renderings. Huh.