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Atkin Olshin Lawson-Bell, designers of the Collis Center addition and McCulloch Hall, have posted photo of a model of the future Tuck Mall Dormitory. The building will stand atop the short street that connects Webster Avenue to Tuck Drive and will include a faculty apartment.

The Sudikoff addition, designed by Fleck & Lewis Architects of Hanover and built by Engelberth Construction, is in progress and at this point looks rather more like a New England clapboard than the building to which it is attached.

The school will break ground this month, The Dartmouth reports, for the new McLaughlin Dormitory Cluster north of Maynard Street, designed by Moore Ruble Yudell in association with Bruner/Cott.   The Tuck Mall dorm will wait until 2006, The Dartmouthreports.

The Demolition of the Shower Towers and the construction of dorms on Tuck Mall and Maynard are new priorities, according to an article in The Dartmouth.

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 facilities plan, “Dartmouth and the Upper Valley:A Special College and a Special Place” is on line and describes several interesting projects apparently not yet settled on, most notably a A “Commons House” behind Dartmouth Row that will provide social spaces.   Others include the renovation of Thayer Dining Hall for social and performance spaces; a Tuck residence hall adjacent Whittemore; 145 residential units in Grasse Road faculty/staff housing; 200 apartment units in Rivercrest, north of campus; and a parking garage south of Cummings for 750+ cars.

Declining endowment returns (see Dartmouth Alumni Magazine November/December 2001) may be putting on hold the plans by Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell for the new dormitory on Tuck Mall.