More images of the MacLean Engineering Sciences Center are on line.   This building is big.   An interesting little entry courtyard with gateposts that was not noticeable in earlier views shows up in a new view and is an almost exact analogue of the larger windswept space on the other side of the Thayer School, where it joins Murdough.   This one looks to be more effective.

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).

The Facilities Planning Office has posted a generous number of plans, elevations and perspectives of the McLaughlin dormitories.   In plan, at least, the composition looks quite a bit like an Oxford-style quadrangle, and each of the four interior angles is even made a bit different from its neighbors.   The axial landscaping and the emphasis on the central building in each trio, however, will probably make these dormitories evoke Ripley, Woodward and Smith Halls at Dartmouth more than any quad.

Thanks to Ted for the information that Phi Delta Alpha is undertaking a major renovation of their massive 5 Webster Avenue house, with interior and exterior work designed by Design-Build Studio of Norwich and contracting by Estes & Gallup of Lyme.   The exterior work includes the additions of a kitchen, bathroom, and entrance.

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.

A method of categorizing and speeding news posts has been added to the site.   Each existing monthly post was edited slightly and backdated to the 28th of the month in which it originally was posted, with those posted before November 2000 given approximate dates.   Future posts will probably remain short enough to appear fully on this page. [Updated February 14, 2005.]

Richard Burck Associates of Somerville Mass. are handling the landscape Design for the McLaughlin and Kemeny projects.