The Valley News has an article on the major changes that lie ahead for Tuck Drive. Vehicle traffic would be one-way eastbound on an 11-foot travel lane …. Bicyclists going downhill would have their own new 5-foot-wide “contra-flow lane,” and … Continue reading
The Friends of College Park and Shattuck Observatory have a petition you can sign to register your opposition to the removal of the observatory and the construction of a dormitory complex in the park. There is a fascinating history of … Continue reading
One hopes that the conceptual design for a housing complex in College Park does not live up to the darkest predictions. And yet one must assume that the plan will not be released until it has been blessed by the … Continue reading
The September 19 letter from John Scherding to North Park Street neighbors1 The letter is posted with the Valley News story. Dartmouth is treading lightly now that the Town has succeeded in stopping the Indoor Practice Facility. states that “if … Continue reading
The website of the new Irving Institute has a page called “Creating the Institute” that says: The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society will be housed in a new building on the west end of campus, between the … Continue reading
I. The Geisel School. The big topic in Dartmouth heraldry is the Geisel School of Medicine’s new shield, mentioned here. It contains the familiar elements of the river, pine, founding date, and book, and it omits the depiction of the … Continue reading
More photos of the Tuck Living and Learning Complex are available. The flanking elements of the three-building complex will be named, from west to east, Achtmeyer Hall and Pineau-Valencienne Hall. The connector portion, with its dining and lecture halls, will … Continue reading
The flat-arched roof on the Tuck Living-Learning Complex is interesting. The project page has recent photos, and the webcam has the latest. —– [Update 11.12.2012: Broken links omitted.]
The Tuck School is building a Living and Learning Complex west of Whittemore Hall. The H-shaped building comprises eastern and western residential wings joined by a full-height connector. A front elevation that has been available for some time indicates that … Continue reading
A blog by Bats provides an early photo of Tuck Mall showing the new landscape work. Unusually, the photo is taken from the roof of Murdough instead of from Baker Tower.
Nearly-live views of the construction of the Tuck School’s Living-Learning Center available. —– [Update 11.17.2012: Broken link removed.]
The updated footprint of the LLC appears about the same as in the first version released, but some interior changes are visible. The basement-level plan appears to have abandoned a rear entrance off the steep slope leading down to the … Continue reading
The Tuck School has released new details about its Living-Learning Center (“the Tuck LLC”), including plans and renderings showing it on the site of Hinman Hall in the River Cluster. The east-facing outdoor space that the LLC creates will be … Continue reading
New plans for Tuck’s Living-Learning Center, to be built on the site of Hinman Hall, are available. For the first time, the basement-level plan confirms that this building, like all of the others in the Tuck School, will be accessible … Continue reading
The Tuck School’s website now has a rendering of the Living-Learning Complex designed by Goody Clancy to occupy the site of Hinman Hall, the River Cluster dormitory. The building’s style appears to be a departure from that of the adjacent … Continue reading
The Dartmouth‘s article on LEED certification at Dartmouth mentions that the College has drilled two 1,500-foot wells to cool the Tuck Mall Dormitory — it’s interesting to note that the dorm is within 100 yards of the first wells dug … Continue reading
Goody Clancy of Boston, designers of several business school buildings including Whittemore Hall, are designing the Tuck School’s new Living and Learning Complex (Vox) to occupy the site of Hinman Hall, in the River Cluster (site plan pdf). Hinman, east … Continue reading
This is Tuck Drive looking north to the construction site of the two linked Tuck Mall Dorms. The dormitories will block the short leg of the Drive that headed left to join Webster Avenue, lately called “Old Tuck Drive” … Continue reading