The creation of Berry Row as a campus space is making progress as the landscaping for Kemeny/Haldeman, designed by Richard Burck Associates, gets underway.
Berry Row’s south end taking shape
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Hitchcock Hall undergoing major renovation
Atkin Olshin Lawson-Bell is designing an extensive renovation of Hitchcock Hall, announced on the OPDC project page. The work will involve the demolition of all interior partitions (not the fireplaces), Charles Rich’s original shed-roofed (?) “resort room” in the crook of the ell, and the room’s early-1980s one-level flat-roofed expansion by Charles Hilgenhurst & Associates.
In the crook, on the original resort room footprint, will go a full-height enclosed fire stair in the same white-sided vocabulary as the interstitial elements of the firm’s Fahey and McLane Halls, across the Mall. The building will also gain a west entrance with a portico.
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to article fixed.]
[Update 01.24.2007: link to fireplace note, other details added.]
West Lebanon planning
The Fall 2004 Architecture II/III studio has put together an information-heavy website presenting their plans for West Lebanon. The planning area (visible in this aerial, with the road to the north leading to Hanover) is the subject of proposals one, two, and three. Part of the presentation includes walkthrough views. The proposals have been presented to city authorities and have generated numerous stories in the Valley News.
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken links removed.]
Various building topics
The Dartmouth and Vox have covered a number of building-related topics recently:
- Zoning for the 53 Commons north of Maynard Street
- The dedication of Kemeny Hall and the Haldeman Centers on the Kiewit site
- The Real Estate Office, which is redeveloping the block south of the Hop
- The Faheys’ gifts
- The Records Management office, which has moved out of Centerra to Etna Road in Lebanon:
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to Records Management fixed.]
Fred Harris Cabin [II?]
A flurry of publicity has marked the ongoing construction of the new Fred Harris Cabin (Vox; The Dartmouth).
The articles describe this cabin in relation to the first cabin the Outing Club built, one that went up during 1913 and apparently collapsed during the 1990s. Hooke lists the first cabin as Cow Moose (1913, demolished 1941) and he describes Fred Harris Cabin as completed during 1951 and still in use in 1987. It’s still not clear what’s what.
Canadian houses come to Hanover
Every one of the 37 new two-story buildings in Sachem Village has been escorted from the Canadian border by Vermont State Police and then from the New Hampshire-Vermont border by the the New Hampshire State Police to Lebanon.
No word on which model the College has selected, whether the Verlaine or the Foucault.
See Bruce Wood, “Modular Grows Up,” [Trumbull-Nelson] Constructive Images (Spring 2006).
The Lodge will be demolished
Dartmouth acquired the Sargent Block, which contains the Hanover Inn Motor Lodge (Brooke Fleck, 1960), and it plans to redevelop the entire block. As with the South Block, this means demolishing most of the buildings.
Although the Lodge has been used for the last twenty years or so as a dormitory, it will be closed during the 2006-2007 year. The very attractive new campus map featuring dormitories also omits the Lodge.
These seem to be the first public signs that the Lodge is about to go. It will be interesting to see what the school builds in its place and how closely it follows the Town’s bold vision for the block.
[Update 08.03.2006: text corrected]
[Update 08.09.2006: “Sargent” added]
Names for five new dorms not announced
The school seems not to have announced very loudly at the end of last month that the new Tuck Mall dorms will be named (from west to east) McLane Hall and Fahey Hall.
What happened to the old McLane Hall in the River Cluster? It has been renamed Judge Hall.
The three remaining dorms in the new McLaughlin Cluster will be named Thomas, Goldstein, and Rauner Halls (see map). Rauner will be the northernmost in the eastern trio, of which Bildner and Berry were named previously; Thomas and Goldstein Halls will be the northern and central buildings, respectively, in the western trio, of which Byrne II already has been named.
McDonough writes on architectural education
Architect Bill McDonough ’72 had a piece in The Green Magazine (Winter 2005), Dartmouth’s environmental magazine. The entire issue focuses on sustainable design.
Design forecast released
The Office of Planning, Design & Construction has revealed an unusual schedule of all the buildings and other construction projects to be completed on campus through October, 2010. This comes with a larger version of the master plan than has been available in the past. The documents state that:
-Bradley-Gerry demolition will end during September, 2007.
-The Life Sciences Building, which will stand east of Vail/Remsen, will be built starting early during 2007, with design starting soon. No architect seems to have been announced yet.
-Design for the dining hall to replace Thayer Hall will begin this summer. No architect has been announced for this project either, although Centerbrook was involved in the master planning for the student center area.
Tech incubator rising in Centerra
The Dartmouth Regional Technology Center, funded by a $2.6m federal grant (Vox article) and a donation of two lots by Dartmouth (New Hampshire Business Review article) is erecting a building to house tech startups at Centerra, east of Hanover, as noted in Trumbull-Nelson’s current projects list.
Choates demolition plan confirmed; other changes
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.
St. Thomas renovation photos available
More information on the St. Thomas project (earlier post): The addition was designed by architect Richard Monahon, Jr., of Peterborough, N.H., in association with Haynes & Garthwaite Architects of Norwich, Vt. Excellent Richard Frutchey photos accompany Jack DeGange’s article in Trumbull-Nelson’s Constructive Images (Fall 2003). Construction photos are found in T-N’s newsletter.
The construction boom
In a speech to the faculty on October 31, President Wright announced: “I think we can confidently say that there has never been as much construction at any one time in our history.” Below is an excerpt from his speech as it relates to each future building project, with speculation about the architects added. In the context of architecture as a world art form, the most important project is the first listed here; the project that is most important to the school is listed second:
- “We are already in the planning stage for the visual arts center and will be continuing that process during the coming months.”
–Designer: Machado & Silvetti - “In the area of student life we are also in the final stages of planning a new dining hall north of campus, and a replacement dining hall at the current Thayer Dining site. The Class of 1953 has provided the funding for the north of Maynard Street facility, which will include space for graduate students. The dining projects will be staggered and will cause some disruption as we will need to complete the north of Maynard project before we begin at the Thayer site.”
–Class of ’53 Dining Hall designer: presumably Moore Ruble Yudell
–New Thayer Dining Hall designer: possibly Centerbrook - “The Tuck School has plans for a living and learning center and they are moving forward with that aggressively. They already have most of the funding in place and are working on construction design, with the intent of starting construction during the second half of next year.”
–Designer: Goody Clancy - “The Medical School is moving ahead with their plans for a translational research building to be constructed near the hospital in Lebanon.”
–Designer: possibly SBRA - “The Grasse Road III project, currently before the town for approval, will provide more affordable housing than can be found in the local market.”
–Designer: unknown, possibly William Rawn Associates - “The life sciences building has been a challenge both in terms of fundraising and planning. Our original notion of a shared laboratory facility with the Medical School has evolved, and we are now thinking about a facility on the Hanover campus that will be primarily for the Biology Department, with only some classroom and meeting space for the Medical School. While this remains one of my very top priorities for fund raising, we are also looking at ways to use debt financing and internal resources to ensure that this project moves forward in a timely fashion.”
- “I have asked the Provost to review plans for renovation of the Dartmouth Row buildings and Carpenter Hall.”
Sherman House addition
The Native American Studies Department anticipates a substantial addition to Sherman House (mentioned):
Front (west) and side (south) facades of the Frank Asbury Sherman House (1883)
Varied notes
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.
Landscape architecture
Lebanon landscape architects Saucier + Flynn, analysts of Dartmouth’s landscape history and designers of the landscape for Whittemore Hall, are designing the environs of the new MacLean Engineering Sciences Building at the Thayer School.
Fleet Bank Building addition
Banwell Architects designed the addition of a humane shopfront to the Fleet Bank Building of Kenneth Parry Associates at 63 South Main Street. From the east:
