Correct me in the comments if I’m wrong, but after Dartmouth demolished Kiewit, it gave Computing Services an office in Baker Library, outside the Tower Room:
Now the deans have joined Computing Services in the first floor of Berry (The Dartmouth, see floorplan pdf), and the Computer Store has been displaced to the basement of McNutt (Dartbeat).
I. King Arthur Café.
Several weeks ago, this post was set to mention Norwich’s King Arthur Flour with a link to this Google blog post about the company. Since then, Google’s promotion of the article has become controversial. Let’s hope this ends up boosting business for King Arthur, which runs the café located off the catalogue room in Baker Library (King Arthur blog, The Dartmouth, Dartbeat).
II. Potential Baker alterations.
The Dartmouth reports that the Undergraduate Deans Office moved out of Parkhurst and into the library over the summer. The new offices appear to be temporary, with a large suite in Baker or elsewhere in the works:
These changes follow announcements made by College President Jim Yong Kim in May 2010 that the College would implement a new student advising structure beginning Fall 2011. The revamped advising structure would be modeled after a hospital triage system centralizing all relevant offices in one location where students could have their advising needs diagnosed, he said.
The deans are in Baker temporarily and will announce a new location in the spring (The Dartmouth).
III. The weathervane and the reference desk.
Ask Dartmouth has a post on Baker Tower’s weather vane. The big Berry reference desk recently was replaced with a new one of a different design (The Dartmouth).
IV. Comparing Baker and Berry.
VSBA designed major additions to two Larson buildings at Dartmouth. The first was the Thayer School addition, which was fairly popular and well-regarded when it opened. The Trustees praised it, probably thinking of the front part:
But the Thayer School addition also had a large rear component, a basic laboratory loft:
The firm’s second major project was the Berry Library and Carson Hall addition to the Baker Library complex. Expected to carry over the classical pavilion from the front of the Thayer project, the firm instead replicated the loft from the rear:
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken links to VSBA and Dartbeat fixed.]
Mark di Suvero’s X-Delta has moved again, this time to a site in front of Berry Library. It will move back to its permanent site below the Hood after the Visual Arts Center is finished.
And Richard Nonas’s 1976 sculpture Telemark Shortline is back:
See also Google Street View.
The Neukom Institute was rumored last year to be considering a request for an addition to Sudikoff.
Ledyard Canoe Club plans to rebuild Titcomb Cabin, which burned last spring. The logs will be put in the river at the Organic Farm and rafted down to Gilman Island. This will be the closest thing to a log drive seen on this stretch of the Connecticut in many years.
David Hooke (Reaching That Peak, 1987) gave a “smoke talk” in Commons on the Outing Club’s history. The Dartmouth reports that “smoke talk” refers to the club’s journal Woodsmoke, but it might also refer to the informal lectures of that name that took place in College Hall at the turn of the century.
The Wall Street Journal has an article on Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates that, although not mentioning it, helps explain their Berry Library project.
Check out the buildings in Dartmouth’s Flickr photostream.
The Dartmouth is doing a weekly articles on Dartmouth out-of-town, starting with the riding center at Morton Farm.
Dartmouth is offering for rent the second level of the 1910s library stacks addition to Eleazar Wheelock’s house. This could make a good society hall:
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken link to VSBA page fixed; broken link to rental page removed.]
Dartmouth’s steam tunnel continues to stretch northward. A thumbnail sketch:
It is always interesting to see familiar architectural motifs reappear elsewhere: Robert Venturi reused Berry Library’s colonnade screen at the Lehigh Valley Hospital in Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to pdf replaced with link to webpage.]
The OPDC continues its generous photographic documentation of the Bradley/Gerry demolition: one view shows Kemeny with Berry in the background, as it was meant to be seen, although just a little bit of Bradley is still standing.
Three views of the renovated Baker Library:
The welcome desk above follows almost exactly the form of the earlier circulation desk, but with paneling depicted rather than attached. Now patrons enter the Berry addition through the librarians’ old passage to the stacks. Note the new colors for the library’s main hall, presumably based on historic colors.
The reflection prevents this photo from showing that one of the display cases has been removed to make a window onto the passage leading back to Berry.
As another local instance of outside becoming inside, an exterior wall of the original Baker stacks now lines the passage to Berry. VSBA installed a door here.
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.
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?)
The Demolition of the Shower Towers and the construction of dorms on Tuck Mall and Maynard are new priorities, according to an article in The Dartmouth.
Baker-Berry project continues: Kiewit’s demolition is underway as noted in the College’s Berry news updates and photos by Sean Dunten of Computing Services.
The big project is the Berry Library by Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates and Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott (live construction) going in behind Baker, the school announced.
