Plenty of new views of the Tuck Mall Dorm are on line.   Tony Atkin’s firm, which designed McCulloch and the Collis renovation, is designing these two connected dormitories.

The new views indicate that the buildings will have more architectural detail than was apparent in smaller renderings.   Each building uses an interesting mini-mansard to imply that its top level is part of the roof, an effect that is necessary on what will be one of Dartmouth’s tallest dorms, at five levels.

The siting also is clearer now in a tentative site plan.   For reference, that is Butterfield/Sage at the right and Webster Avenue at the top.   Larson and Pope each planned more dorms here than this new cluster will introduce, both architects suggesting that new buildings branch off at the angle of Webster as Butterfield did during the late 1930s; see Pope’s very long row behind Webster and compare Pope’s view of this spot (showing from left two proposed dorms, then Russell Sage) with the current project (again, two new dorms, then Sage); the new project actually seems better because it holds down the edge of Tuck Mall, which did not exist in Pope’s plan.   In fact, this dorm should make the mall even stronger than before, with Butterfield fading off to the northwest weakly.   The strong building of the two looks like it might face Streeter directly.