Architect Chris Grimley of Machado & Silvetti “is currently working on a consolidation of the arts programs at Dartmouth College into a single Visual Art Center.”

Although the universal acclaim for the firm’s $275 million renovation of the Getty Villa museum (New Yorker, New York Times) makes Dartmouth’s selection of the firm appear especially prescient, the best predictor of the appearance of the Lebanon Street building might be the firm’s University of Utah Museum of Fine Art.

Construction will start for the new building during the summer of 2008. Unfortunately, it will require the school to demolish the 1914 Clement Hall, Hanover’s best industrial building.