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The Hood Museum at Dartmouth College.

Choates demolition plan confirmed; other changes

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The Darmtouth passes along the information from Dean Redman that the school plans to tear down and replace each of the Choates, one building at a time. The school’s current interest in replacing the buildings, a departure from its mid-1990s plans to add to them, is no secret; the specifics of the method of destruction seem new.

Other information:

  • Not only new students but all students will be housed by class.
  • The two River Cluster dorms that will remain standing after the Tuck School’s expansion will be renovated as apartments.
  • Hitchcock Hall will be renovated.
  • Richardson Hall might be renovated as the new International House.
  • The Lodge and North Hall might be closed during the fall of 2006.
  • Dartmouth will demolish Brewster for the Hood Museum of Art expansion, as predicted by some of the Rogers Marvel master plans.

Planning office renamed

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Varied notes

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Small updates:

  • Fred Wilson‘s new reinterpretation of the Hood’s collection opened on October 1.
  • The College has long considered serving beer in the future north campus dining hall.
  • The Dartmouth notes that work on the Gym continues and should end by April.
  • The Dartmouth notes that Chi Gamma Epsilon and Bones Gate have reopened after their
    building code renovations and additions.
  • Dartmouth Life has a roundup of current construction projects.   The links at the bottom are
    to unique articles rather than the Facilities Planning Projects Page.
  • The academic projects of Visual Arts Building architects Machado and Silvetti includes chiefly Princeton’s Scully Hall (1998) (more) and — more remarkably — a 1992 parking garage there.

Hopland planning

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The firm of Jonathan Marvel ’82 (Rogers Marvel) has made available photos of a model of their master plan for the arts district (ca. 2002).   The design foresees addition to the east and west ends of Spaulding Auditorium, the replacement of the Hop studios (and Charles Moore’s Courtyard Cafe), and, most notably, an extension of the Hop’s entrance facade to the west that would double the width of that facade on the Green and provide much-needed infill for the gap in the street line.

The Hood Museum would be extended south to Lebanon Street.   A view to the southeast from near the site of Brewster Hall allows a glimpse through this Hood extension and into the courtyard.   Though a master plan is only a projection, the Visual Arts Building on Lebanon Street is in progress by Machado and Silvetti.

[Updated 08.30.2005.]

Assyrian reliefs

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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.