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.

Dogs really are allowed to sit in on lectures.   According to the Dartmouth Administrative Guide, non-messy dogs are allowed in non-dormitory buildings if they are in the care of a keeper.   The regulation does not mention dogs that run free and are not “creating a nuisance.”

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?)

Hinman Hall is to be demolished according to a site plan (125k pdf) depicting future Tuck School expansion.   The school’s new “Living and Learning” facility, which will occupy the site of the northernmost River Cluster dormitory, also is described in the school’s capital campaign info.   The tentative footprint of the new building seems strangely friendly to the existing 1960s-style street layout and hostile to the Tuck School’s existing rectilinear armatures.

[Update 05.05.2005: Joe’s Dartblog reports that the rumor is that demolition starts this summer.]

Construction was planned to start on the Tuck Mall Dorm early March according to The Dartmouth.

DMS has finished its Doctors’ Office Building at DHMC and is planning LeBaron Commons.

Meanwhile DHMC has been adding new floors, a parking garage, a helicopter hangar, and other facilities in a $224 million expansion project.

Plenty of new views of the Tuck Mall Dorm are on line.   Tony Atkin’s firm, which designed McCulloch and the Collis renovation, is designing these two connected dormitories.

The new views indicate that the buildings will have more architectural detail than was apparent in smaller renderings.   Each building uses an interesting mini-mansard to imply that its top level is part of the roof, an effect that is necessary on what will be one of Dartmouth’s tallest dorms, at five levels.

The siting also is clearer now in a tentative site plan.   For reference, that is Butterfield/Sage at the right and Webster Avenue at the top.   Larson and Pope each planned more dorms here than this new cluster will introduce, both architects suggesting that new buildings branch off at the angle of Webster as Butterfield did during the late 1930s; see Pope’s very long row behind Webster and compare Pope’s view of this spot (showing from left two proposed dorms, then Russell Sage) with the current project (again, two new dorms, then Sage); the new project actually seems better because it holds down the edge of Tuck Mall, which did not exist in Pope’s plan.   In fact, this dorm should make the mall even stronger than before, with Butterfield fading off to the northwest weakly.   The strong building of the two looks like it might face Streeter directly.

The University of Virginia is preserving by moving its 1857 infirmary, now an Air Force R.O.T.C. headquarters, in part because of the building’s important association with medical history.   Dartmouth College destroyed its Medical School in 1963: the building had been used continuously for medical education since 1811 and was so important to the Medical School that it still appears on the school’s logo.

The Hanover Fire Department was among those responding to the largest fire in the Junc in 25 years, a blaze that leveled several buildings but spared the Polka Dot, as the Valley News reports.

The Food Co-Op has a history on line and a photo essay.

The Dartmouth reports that construction on the Tuck Mall Dorm has begun.