Photos from the Math Department depict the construction of the foundation and basement of Kemeny/Haldeman.
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Category Archives: Kemeny/Haldeman
Projects underway
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?)
Kemeny/Haldeman
A variety of views and plans of Kemeny Haldeman have appeared on line, including a plan of the building that indicates that it will have two mirror-image entrances on Main Street that bear different names. One obviously is Kemeny, the other Haldeman.
The brick polychromy in the building’s walls might be interpreted to represent computer codes, but I read it as more of a Dutch influence; the firm uses brick patterns in the McLaughlin cluster too.
The Math Department has a detailed photo album depicting the project that includes February view of the future basement, viewed toward the Shower Towers and away from them (that used to be Bradley Court, which never seemed that great).
Article on construction
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.]
Burck landscape design
Richard Burck Associates of Somerville Mass. are handling the landscape Design for the McLaughlin and Kemeny projects.
Kemeny/Haldeman renderings
More descriptive renderings of the future Kemeny/Haldeman buildings designed by Moore Ruble Yudell have been posted to the Kemeny site. The Main Street side of the building adopts a shallow C-shaped plan, as does the existing Silsby/Rockefeller across the street, while the scale of the buildings is more like that of the adjacent houses.
Construction budgeting
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.
Kemeny Hall website
Dartmouth has a new website for Kemeny Hall that includes an elevated drawing of the south facade of the building — as well as the adjoining Academic Centers building.
The Dartmouth reports zoning approval for the new dorm north of Maynard Street.
Architect for new arts building
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.
Planning in spite of slowdown
The Downturn has slowed construction, but according to an update from Provost Scherr, but the College still is pursuing projects including the Academic Centers north of Carson Hall on North Main; Kemeny Hall on North Main, which requires moving Phi Tau; an addition to Sudikoff Hall; an addition to the south of Cummings Hall atop the existing road; and an addition to the Child Care center.
Planning for north campus projects
Trustees are moving ahead on planning, The Dartmouth reports.:
- Construction on the Maynard Street dormitory is set to begin in less than eight months.
- Designs for Kemeny Hall have been presented, construction to begin fall 2003.
- Bradley and Gerry will be demolished.
- Phi Tau will be moved west (toward Main Street).
- A new parking garage at the Thayer School was approved.
Projects contemplated
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
Institutes building planned
The Trustees have decided to build a new building to house three existing institutes, according to a news release. The building seems to be an addition to the projected Kemeny Hall on the Shower Towers site.