The Thayer School has posted aerial views of its new MacLean Engineering Sciences Center under construction.
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Varsity House planning
The Valley News has more on the Trustees’ latest planning. Deciding to build a new Varsity House alongside a new East Stand has allowed the school to include in its already-begun renovation of Alumni Gym the removal of the recent Manley varsity strength training center. A student fitness center will take its place in the top of the gym, replacing the existing Kresge facility.
Visual arts center
Dartmouth will build a new visual arts building on Lebanon Street east of the Hopkins Center according to a press release. (See the Downtown Hanover Vision for a general idea of siting; Brewster Hall presumably will be demolished for this project.) Studio Art and Film and Television Studies will move into the building when it is completed. The Dartmouth reported during February 2004 that Machado and Silvetti Associates would design this building; the firm’s Matthew Oudens, project architect for an addition to the Getty Villa and the award-winning Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library (more images), is listed as the project architect.
New stand at Memorial Field
Dartmouth will build a new east stand at Memorial Field adjacent to a three-level varsity fieldhouse according to a press release. The building will overlook the football field and its upper level will have a good view of the game. [Updated 06.18.2005.]
Gym renovation plans
The Facilities Planning Office has posted plans for the ongoing major renovations of Alumni Gym designed by Lavallee/Brensinger Architects of Littleton, designers of the Labatts “beer academy” in Manchester. The work includes installing a mezzanine in the old drill hall (the upper gym space) to create a fitness center there and replacing the squash courts in the Squash Courts building with multipurpose spaces.
South Block begins
Construction has begun on the South Block buildings, and Dartmouth’s real estate office has posted a plan of the site [pdf] and information about the individual buildings:
68, 72 South Main [pdf] is a commercial building that runs the full width of the South-Dorrance block, with its front facade divided to represent four different buildings at traditional scales. Truex Cullins and Partners of Burlington, designers of corporate headquarters for Burton Snowboards and Ben & Jerry’s, designed the building.
UK Architects PC of Hanover designed an addition to the Gates House [pdf], formerly Big Green Cuts etc. but now moved back to 3 South Street to contain three apartments.
William Rawn Associates of Boston, designers of the Dreamworks SKG headquarters and earlier houses for Dartmouth, designed buildings containing residential and commercial spaces at 5 South Street (two apartments) [pdf], 7 South Street (six apartments) [pdf], and 9 South Street (four apartments) [pdf].
The school also will build at Five Currier Street.
Construction boom
The Valley News reports on the largest construction boom in recent memory, with $180 million in College and Town projects underway.
McLaughlin dorms named
The school has selected the names for one of two dormitory trios being built in the McLaughlin Cluster. The three connected buildings will be called Berry Hall, Bildner Hall, and Byrne Hall II according to a press release.
Three families gave about $6 million each for the buildings: John and Shirley Berry, Charles Berry, and Roberta and George Berry ’66 funded a dormitory to be named for John W. Berry Sr. ’44; Joan and Allen Bildner ’47, Tu ’48 funded Bildner Hall; Dorothy and John “Jack” Byrne Jr. and their sons John Byrne III ’81, Mark Byrne ’85, Tu ’86, and Patrick Byrne ’85 funded Byrne Hall II.
Elm Walk
The school may have made this official earlier, but it has started using the phrase “the Elm Walk” to describe the new collegiate open space between Berry and Maynard Street.
While still a proposed design, this space was referred to by some as a “second Green” (compare a sketch of the big VSBA proposal to other spaces on campus). Beginning with the construction of Moore Hall, the school seems to have emphasized the nature of the space as an armature or route rather than as an enclosed volume per se.
One wonders whether the school could drum up donations to give this walk a memorial function like that of Tuck Mall at Dartmouth or McCosh Walk at Princeton.
Kemeny/Haldeman naming
Nearly two thousand people donated a total of $10.7 million to win a $1 million challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation toward the construction of Kemeny/Haldeman, the school has announced.
For $5 million, you may still name the building’s tower, depicted at right in a rendering of the building. A special floor plan (1.5mb pdf) designates some of the building’s other nameable features.
Alumni Gym renovation
The D reports on the renovation of Alumni Gym, which will include the restoration of the gymnasium (i.e. drill hall) space to its original volume by the removal of a recent suspended ceiling.
South Block planning hinted at
The logo of the South Block page for the school’s Real Estate Office depicts East South Street and Currier Place not as it is now (visible at the lower right of a current map) but as it would look after redevelopment. Ramunto’s, Buon Gustaio and their neighbors currently stand on the site of the large building depicted at the left side of the proposal. That building is considerably larger than suggested in the Downtown Hanover Vision plan but is not out of scale with others on Main Street.
Roundabout on Lyme Road
The Town votes at the Town Meeting on May 10 whether to spend $50,000 to build a roundabout (1.5mb pdf map) at the intersection of Lyme Road and Reservoir Road.
Kemeny construction
Photos from the Math Department depict the construction of the foundation and basement of Kemeny/Haldeman.
Thayer School ESC construction
The framing for Thayer’s new building was topped off on March 30.
Soccer field naming
The Dartmouth reports that Stanley Smoyer, 1934 is donating $4.5m for the new soccer field and stand south of Thompson Arena, to be named for coach and Athletic Director Alden “Whitey” Burnham. The D has an image available showing the view to the southwest along Park Street with Thompson at the right.
Rugby Clubhouse dedication
DRFC announce that the new Rugby Clubhouse will be dedicated on September 23-24 (construction images).
[Update 07.01.2005: The Lyme, N.H. firm of Randall T. Mudge and Associates – Architects designed the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse.]
Alumni Gym stair replacement
Dartmouth plans to demolish the massive entance stair, built in two stages between 1909 and 1913, at the front of the historic Alumni Gymnasium as the Planning Board minutes of Jan. 4 explain. [pdf] The school will build a new stair and entrance ramp.
