The Facilities and Physical Infrastructure and Student Lifesections of the new strategic plan, “Dartmouth College: Forever New” include proposals for new buildings, including a Hopkins Center expansion and a Tuck School dormitory.
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Construction on hold
President Wright’s budget letter: “We will place a hold on all construction and renovation projects not currently underway or otherwise obligated by contract or other instruments.”
Campus construction update in The Dartmouth.
Campus Guide
Princeton Architectural Press will be publishing a Senior Lecturer‘s Dartmouth Campus Guide, with photos by college photographer Joseph Mehling: at Amazon during February.
[Updated 07.12.2005: The press since has withdrawn plans to publish the text, and it appears in the out-of-stock list of Princeton Architectural Press.]
[Updated 07.30.2006: The press states that the book has been canceled.]
[Updated 11.17.2007: The press will publish a campus guide in 2008.
[Updated 06.29.2008: Dartmouth College: The Campus Guide was published on June 1.]
Land swap outcome
Agreement with the Dresden School Board: high school stays, Dartmouth gets playing fields on Reservoir Road and Howe Library parking lot.
Site redesign
This page redesigned.
Site updates
“Rants” and “Topics” removed, as were pages describing individual buildings in Rich Appendix B, in preparation for better versions.
Construction items in strategic plan
The school’s new strategic plan includes several building projects, The Dartmouth reports. Among them are a parking garage by Cummings (Summer 2003), the Maynard Street Dorm, and a dining hall nearby to seat 500-600.
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link fixed.]
Hanover Downtown Vision plan
Hanover’s Downtown Vision plan (2000) by Brook McIlroy Inc. has been posted.
“Something for Everyone“: Report of the Scenic Locales Committee for the Town of Hanover (September, 1998).
Wright provides more information on construction in the Strategic Plan, The Dartmouth reports.
Planning for north campus projects
Trustees are moving ahead on planning, The Dartmouth reports.:
- Construction on the Maynard Street dormitory is set to begin in less than eight months.
- Designs for Kemeny Hall have been presented, construction to begin fall 2003.
- Bradley and Gerry will be demolished.
- Phi Tau will be moved west (toward Main Street).
- A new parking garage at the Thayer School was approved.
Lamb & Rich list updated
New version of the list of buildings and projects outside of Hanover designed by Charles Alonzo Rich available for download [.pdf].
[Update 01.22.2011: The Lamb & Rich list is available at the project site.]
Pavilion opens in Thayer
The Pavilion, the school’s kosher/ halal/ sakahara dining facility in Thayer Hall, has opened according to a press release.
Dartmouth has added a thorough “virtual tour” of the campus to its website.
Planning ideas
Reid Coggins ’04, student representative to a campus planning committee, notes several new ideas in discussion:
- Tentative plans to demolish Hinman (the River Cluster dormitory) and build a new Tuck School building in its place
- Longer-term plans to alter or even demolish the Choates
- Plans to add to Sudikoff to provide more space for Computer Science
- Plans by the Church of Christ for renovations that may improve the Berry-Maynard vista.
Rauner Library receives award
Rauner Library (VSBA, 1998) will receive a 2002 AIA Honor Award according to a press release. (announcements from the AIA and Architectural Record.)
Proposal for a coat of arms
Link to Professor Jonathan Good’s “Proposal for a Heraldic Coat of Arms for Dartmouth College” added to Links.
[Update 08.22.2005: link updated.]
[Update 01.22.2011: link moved.]
Buzz Yudell to speak
Buzz Yudell of Moore Ruble Yudell speaks on the design of the buildings north of Maynard, The Dartmouth reports.
Projects contemplated
President Wright noted several facilities projects underway or contemplated in his Annual Report to the General Faculty:
- Thayer School addition
- Cancer Center at DMS/DHMC
- Residential and administrative space at the Tuck School
- Kemeny Hall (mathematics, on Shower Towers site)
- Academic Centers adjoining Kemeny (see above)
- Incremental space for Computer Sciences
- Arts facilities improvements (study under way by Rogers Marvel Architects)
- Life Sciences building (a “shared facility” that “bridges the Arts and Sciences and the Medical School”)
- Classroom renovations, ongoing
- Renovations to Alumni Gymnasium and Thayer Dining Hall
- Heating Plant capacity expansion
- New parking deck
Plan update presented
The Trustees heard an update of Moore Ruble Yudell‘s plans for the 500-bed Maynard Street dorm, The Dartmouth reports.
Institutes building planned
The Trustees have decided to build a new building to house three existing institutes, according to a news release. The building seems to be an addition to the projected Kemeny Hall on the Shower Towers site.