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The Valley News reports on the largest construction boom in recent memory, with $180 million in College and Town projects underway.

Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Hart praises the World’s Fair architecture of J. André Fouilhoux and Wallace K. Harrison (designer of the Hopkins Center) in the New Criterion 23, no. 5 (January 2005).   The sibling space of the Hop’s Spaulding Auditorium, the General Assembly Hall at Harrison’s UN General Assembly Building in Manhattan, has been appearing in papers recently.

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.

Hopland altered slightly.

Charter pages altered slightly.

North Campus updated.

The Trustees have budgeted for a late-2004 construction project (Maynard Street dormitories) and construction during 2005 (Kemeny Hall/ Haldeman Center and Gym fitness center expansion).

The Trustees also have budgeted for the 2005 planning of the dining hall north of Maynard, a new dormitory on Tuck Mall, new biology buildings and the Hop expansion.

The school is continuing with Machado and Silvetti Associates‘ plans to expand the Hop, The Dartmouth reports.

Perhaps the most architecturally-interesting news is the announcement that the school is selecting an architect for a new arts building, presumably in the vicinity of the Hood and Clement.

The College has given the go-ahead to begin building the Kemeny Center for the math department as well as an adjoining building for a group of academic institutes, according to President Wright.   Construction on the NoMa dormitories and dining hall will begin by the fall of 2004.   The addition to Sudikoff also will get underway.

The Facilities and Physical Infrastructure and Student Lifesections of the new strategic plan, “Dartmouth College: Forever New” include proposals for new buildings, including a Hopkins Center expansion and a Tuck School dormitory.

President Wright noted several facilities projects underway or contemplated in his Annual Report to the General Faculty:

• Thayer School addition
• Cancer Center at DMS/DHMC
• Residential and administrative space at the Tuck School
• Kemeny Hall (mathematics, on Shower Towers site)
• Academic Centers adjoining Kemeny (see above)
• Incremental space for Computer Sciences
• Arts facilities improvements (study under way by Rogers Marvel Architects)
• Life Sciences building (a “shared facility” that “bridges the Arts and Sciences and the Medical School”)
• Classroom renovations, ongoing
• Renovations to Alumni Gymnasium and Thayer Dining Hall
• Heating Plant capacity expansion
• New parking deck

A master plan for arts facilities around the Hop is underway by the New York firm that designed Kate Spade’s shops, Rogers Marvel Architects.

Hopland essay removed from Rants & Schemes and posted on its own.

A history of Tuck Hall (McNutt) posted in Rich appendix. [Update: the information has since been removed.]