Tabard is starting some work to improve accessibility and fire safety, as the Planning Board agenda notes.
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Assyrian reliefs
Dartmouth acquired some of the interior walls of an Assyrian palace of King Ashurnasirpal II from Austin Henry Layard’s excavations (1845-), Vox reports. Layard also sent some reliefs to Canford Manor in Dorset, most of which later were sold but one of which remained next to the dartboard on the wall of a boys’ school snack shop until its rediscovery in 1992. The panel sold at Christie’s for $11.8m, money that the school put toward some Assyrian Scholarships.
Hopkins Center and Harrison
Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Hart praises the World’s Fair architecture of J. André Fouilhoux and Wallace K. Harrison (designer of the Hopkins Center) in the New Criterion 23, no. 5 (January 2005). The sibling space of the Hop’s Spaulding Auditorium, the General Assembly Hall at Harrison’s UN General Assembly Building in Manhattan, has been appearing in papers recently.
Dog regulations
Dogs really are allowed to sit in on lectures. According to the Dartmouth Administrative Guide, non-messy dogs are allowed in non-dormitory buildings if they are in the care of a keeper. The regulation does not mention dogs that run free and are not “creating a nuisance.”
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken links to DAG removed.]
Projects underway
The Review has posted its latest issue, which includes a list of projects underway, some stats for the north campus, and a thoughtful article on the new construction by Joseph Rago, who quotes Dean Redman on the planning of the new dorms north of Maynard: “We learned from our mistakes in East Wheelock[.]”
Remember, you heard about the “mini-mansard” here first! (Actually, mini-mansard is probably not the right word, since the roof does not slope at the gable ends: perhaps it is a cryptogambrel?)
Hinman Hall demolition
Hinman Hall is to be demolished according to a site plan (125k pdf) depicting future Tuck School expansion. The school’s new “Living and Learning” facility, which will occupy the site of the northernmost River Cluster dormitory, also is described in the school’s capital campaign info. The tentative footprint of the new building seems strangely friendly to the existing 1960s-style street layout and hostile to the Tuck School’s existing rectilinear armatures.
[Update 05.05.2005: Joe’s Dartblog reports that the rumor is that demolition starts this summer.]
Construction of Tuck Mall Dorm
Construction was planned to start on the Tuck Mall Dorm early March according to The Dartmouth.
Construction at DHMC
DMS has finished its Doctors’ Office Building at DHMC and is planning LeBaron Commons.
Meanwhile DHMC has been adding new floors, a parking garage, a helicopter hangar, and other facilities in a $224 million expansion project.
Tuck Mall dorm plans, others
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.
The old Medical School Building
The University of Virginia is preserving by moving its 1857 infirmary, now an Air Force R.O.T.C. headquarters, in part because of the building’s important association with medical history. Dartmouth College destroyed its Medical School in 1963: the building had been used continuously for medical education since 1811 and was so important to the Medical School that it still appears on the school’s logo.
Polka Dot Diner
The Hanover Fire Department was among those responding to the largest fire in the Junc in 25 years, a blaze that leveled several buildings but spared the Polka Dot, as the Valley News reports.
Food Co-Op
The Food Co-Op has a history on line and a photo essay.
Tuck Mall Dorm
The Dartmouth reports that construction on the Tuck Mall Dorm has begun.
MacLean ESC
More images of the MacLean Engineering Sciences Center are on line. This building is big. An interesting little entry courtyard with gateposts that was not noticeable in earlier views shows up in a new view and is an almost exact analogue of the larger windswept space on the other side of the Thayer School, where it joins Murdough. This one looks to be more effective.
Kemeny/Haldeman
A variety of views and plans of Kemeny Haldeman have appeared on line, including a plan of the building that indicates that it will have two mirror-image entrances on Main Street that bear different names. One obviously is Kemeny, the other Haldeman.
The brick polychromy in the building’s walls might be interpreted to represent computer codes, but I read it as more of a Dutch influence; the firm uses brick patterns in the McLaughlin cluster too.
The Math Department has a detailed photo album depicting the project that includes February view of the future basement, viewed toward the Shower Towers and away from them (that used to be Bradley Court, which never seemed that great).
Plans posted
The Facilities Planning Office has posted a generous number of plans, elevations and perspectives of the McLaughlin dormitories. In plan, at least, the composition looks quite a bit like an Oxford-style quadrangle, and each of the four interior angles is even made a bit different from its neighbors. The axial landscaping and the emphasis on the central building in each trio, however, will probably make these dormitories evoke Ripley, Woodward and Smith Halls at Dartmouth more than any quad.
Phi Delt renovation
Thanks to Ted for the information that Phi Delta Alpha is undertaking a major renovation of their massive 5 Webster Avenue house, with interior and exterior work designed by Design-Build Studio of Norwich and contracting by Estes & Gallup of Lyme. The exterior work includes the additions of a kitchen, bathroom, and entrance.
Article on construction
This month’s Dartmouth Life has an overview of the nine largest projects underway, with images of several of them. Two that have received little press lately but seem to get the go-ahead here are the Visual Arts Center on Lebanon Street (Machado and Silvetti) and the Tuck School dormitory/classroom complex that sounds bigger than when first announced:
The facility will consist of three connected buildings: the east and west residential buildings, and the central classroom and learning bulding.
That facility will be connected to the existing Tuck complex and designed by the firm that designed Tuck’s most recent addition of Whittemore Hall [more], Goody Clancy.
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to news article replaced, broken links to Goody Clancy pages fixed.]