The Squash Courts Building is being renovated to contain multipurpose spaces. The College is switching from the North American court to the larger international court, and renovated some of the courts in Berry Gym for that purpose during 2002. One imagines that the building would not have been so easy to change:
The blue-lit emergency poles have proliferated on campus over the last seven or eight years, establishing an alternative (“negative”) version of the school’s shield:
This view shows some of the new graduate student houses that have gone up in a long row on North Park Street. Designed by William Rawn Associates, they are varied in form and color and make a remarkable assemblage, especially in the context of a tree-lined, nineteenth-century street.
The recently-completed facilities adjacent Thompson Arena comprise the Boss Tennis Center with its entrance in the Gordon Pavilion, the east facades of which are depicted here:
and the Scully-Fahey Field for lacrosse, field hockey, and other sports. Its triumphal arch is the largest gate at Dartmouth:
The Dartmouth reports that Hitchcock Hall will be renovated after the fall of 2006, a project that will probably include the installation of an elevator.
College Chaplain Rev. Richard Crocker expects the stained glass windows in Rollins to be repaired beginning during the summer of 2006 according to an interview in the Dartmouth Review. Â The Review also prints Kale Bongers’ historically-minded editorial supporting the restoration.
In his interview, Rev. Crocker related with qualifications the story that the Rollins altar was moved back to the east end during the 1960s and that the sun that shone through the apse windows into the eyes of the audience as a result was part of the reason the school covered the windows. Â The pulpit or lectern had been moved to the southeast corner of the crossing in 1912 when the transepts were lengthened and effectively made into a new nave (the hillside blocked any more expansion to the east).
The Leverone Field House designed by Pier Luigi Nervi was renovated recently:
The corner building in the recent faculty housing group at Wheelock and South Park Streets, designed by Truex, Cullins and Partners:
The designer of the graduate student houses now standing on the west side of North Park Street is the firm of William Rawn Associates Architects, Inc. of Boston, designer of many houses on Grasse Road for Dartmouth as well as buildings in the South Block. (Kessel-Duff notes.) The graduate student houses replace the pair of 1957 faculty apartment buildings by E.H. & M.K. Hunter (Edgar Hayes Hunter, Jr., 1938, and Margaret King Hunter, designers of the Shower Towers).
Finally some information on the generally underdescribed 22 units of faculty housing at Wheelock and Park: Truex, Cullins and Partners of Burlington designed the $2.6m project according to the contractor’s site (Kessell-Duff Corporation, also builders of the North Park graduate student housing and other projects).
Truex Cullins partners William H. Truex, Jr. and Rolf Kielman and Associate Sparky Millikin are alumni.
Dartmouth is renovating a Jens-Larson-designed faculty apartment building (Ledyard) at 19 East Wheelock Street into a dormitory.
Adjacent the dormitory at 17 East Wheelock stands Parkside, still a faculty apartment and an early work of the notable architect Howard Major. Major worked with Charles Rich to design the building during 1912 while Major was a draftsman in Rich’s firm. Major later wrote on architectural history, including The Domestic Architecture of the Early American Republic: The Greek Revival (1926), and became an architect to society, especially in a large number of Classical and Caribbean designs in Palm Beach, Florida.
[Update 07.25.2005. Post originally stated that 17 East Wheelock was being renovated.]
Artist Michael Singer led a team of designers in proposing an alternative to the VSBA plan for the North Campus during 1996.
The school is renovating the Parkside apartment building, designed by Howard Major and Charles Rich as faculty housing, and Amarna [planning board [pdf]].
Dartmouth will build a new east stand at Memorial Field adjacent to a three-level varsity fieldhouse according to a press release. The building will overlook the football field and its upper level will have a good view of the game. [Updated 06.18.2005.]
The Valley News reports on the largest construction boom in recent memory, with $180 million in College and Town projects underway.
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.
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.]
The Facilities Planning Office has views of the McLaughlin dorms up.
The new capital campaign seeks funds for dormitories and other buildings.
Construction is ongoing, The Dartmouth reports.