Bruce Wood at the Big Green Alert Blog has some up-to-date photos of the site preparations.
Numerous plans and bidding documents are now on line. The Trustees report saving almost $10 million by refining the contractor bidding process. Building contractor Berry has a project page up.
The architects have their VAC page back up, but without significant information. The school’s design office has been able to go a year without updating their general projects page, indicating the depth of the slowdown.
The latest Alumni Magazine notes the critique of an architect, that the VAC does not fit into its context. Comments available at NPR and The Chronicle say similar things. It will be interesting to see the final result of this project, considering that much of the building’s context is not red brick at all, which is what the critics seem to refer to. The building will stand right across the street from C&A Pizza:
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[Update 03.31.2013: Broken link to Berry & Son removed.]