The Maloney Building, designed by U.K. Architects, has opened across from the Howe.
Not-so-traditional Maloney Building opens
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Category Archives: South Block
Large urban redevelopments at other schools
A major theme of campus planning in the early twentieth century seems to be the redevelopment by a college or university of a large discontiguous tract. Whether for purposes that are mostly or partly non-academic, the common characteristic is the form: a treelined urban grid, not an academic campus of connected grassy spaces. The South Block project in Hanover (purchased 1998, redeveloped 2005-2007) is one example. Penn has its parcel, Columbia is pursuing its huge work north of its campus (see Plan NYC; pdf map), Yale just purchased a suburban pharmaceutical research park, and Harvard is beginning its Allston redevelopment (map; aerial rendering; Globe article). Allston might be the largest of the group, and it is meant to be “sustainable.”
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken link to Allston items, sustainability page, and article below removed.]
[Update 11.17.2007: An August article by Jeff Stahl in Urban Land (pdf) covers this trend.]
South Block landscaping
H. Kieth Wagner Partnership, Landscape Architects, has images of the South Block landscaping — paving, ramps, benches, plantings, outdoor seating, and so on.
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[Update 05.03.2014: Broken link to images replaced.]
[Update 03.31.2013: Broken link to images replaced.]
Designs downtown (12 East South)
UK Architects designed a replacement building for insurance agency Maloney Associates at 12 East South Street, across from the Howe.
South Block results emerge
Photos of some of the completed buildings in the South Block, where Ramunto’s, Hanover Hardware, and Cafe Buon Gustaio used to be, are available:
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.]
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:
Serry’s Building
Dartmouth has purchased Serry’s on Lebanon Street (The Dartmouth, Valley News) and the building appears to be undergoing a major renovation:
Architect of the graduate student housing
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).
Wheelock and Park housing info
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.
7 Lebanon Street
Charles Tseckares and Christopher Hill, “When Gown Builds Town: Schools That Do Good Business,” College Planning and Management (November 2003), mention the College-Town building recently built at 7 Lebanon Street to designs by CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc., the architectural firm in which the authors are partners. Donald Maurice Kreis also writes about the building in “A Dignified “Background Building” for Hanover.”
South Block begins
Construction has begun on the South Block buildings, and Dartmouth’s real estate office has posted a plan of the site [pdf] and information about the individual buildings:
68, 72 South Main [pdf] is a commercial building that runs the full width of the South-Dorrance block, with its front facade divided to represent four different buildings at traditional scales. Truex Cullins and Partners of Burlington, designers of corporate headquarters for Burton Snowboards and Ben & Jerry’s, designed the building.
UK Architects PC of Hanover designed an addition to the Gates House [pdf], formerly Big Green Cuts etc. but now moved back to 3 South Street to contain three apartments.
William Rawn Associates of Boston, designers of the Dreamworks SKG headquarters and earlier houses for Dartmouth, designed buildings containing residential and commercial spaces at 5 South Street (two apartments) [pdf], 7 South Street (six apartments) [pdf], and 9 South Street (four apartments) [pdf].
The school also will build at Five Currier Street.
Construction boom
The Valley News reports on the largest construction boom in recent memory, with $180 million in College and Town projects underway.
South Block planning hinted at
The logo of the South Block page for the school’s Real Estate Office depicts East South Street and Currier Place not as it is now (visible at the lower right of a current map) but as it would look after redevelopment. Ramunto’s, Buon Gustaio and their neighbors currently stand on the site of the large building depicted at the left side of the proposal. That building is considerably larger than suggested in the Downtown Hanover Vision plan but is not out of scale with others on Main Street.
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?)
Howe expanding
The Howe Library now is expanding and has a rendering and plans available.
Workers have begun demolishing buildings on the South Block.
South Block demolition
South Block project
The South Block redevelopment project is accellerating; the school’s Real Estate site plans more information.
Plenty of projects are in the works, all summarized in the most recent master plan (June 2002): highlights include the design work pending for a modular addition to Sudikoff and the evaluation of sites behind Fayerweather Row for a Commons House.